Word: suits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...professors are not the first to accuse Ask Jeeves of patent infringement. Last July, in a suit that is still pending, Mountain View's IPLearn LLC, a company that uses natural language queries, filed a similar patent infringement suit in Oakland, Calif. Ask Jeeves denied the accusation...
...parked and reparked a Russian-embassy car with diplomatic plates, apparently looking for an optimum position for an antenna concealed, as it turned out, in a Kleenex box on his dashboard. Once satisfied, he got out and appeared to be working a remote-control device hidden in his suit. All this led the FBI to conclude--correctly, as events proved--that he had planted some sort of short-range low-frequency device and was settling down to monitor...
...paper: Chase brought the structure to do private equity investment, and Giacchetto brought his high-wattage clients. But friction developed fast. Among the sore points, Cassandra-Chase's investment in Digital Entertainment Network, an Internet start-up whose chairman resigned after the out-of-court settlement of a suit that alleged he had molested a 13-year...
...what's the attraction? Part of it is nostalgia. "Sheepherding harks back to an age when life was less complicated," says Wienir. "There's that ancient sense of pastoral peacefulness." Harried aristocrats from Marie Antoinette onward have unwound by playing peasant, and in flush times the middle classes follow suit...
...from their flawed security. Lee charges that the agencies illegally leaked information about his private life to the press despite knowledge that he wasn't guilty of espionage. Sylvia Lee, a former secretary and data imputer at Los Alamos, does not face criminal charges, but signed on to the suit because, she says, she's been subjected to unwanted notoriety from press leaks...