To date, there are 48 lawsuits that have been documented online, 39 of which have had the fines clearly defined and the rest either to be decided or with undisclosed fines. Below is the complete list in alphabetical order. If there is any lawsuit that I missed or any other information or amounts that are incorrect, please do inform me. µ
Alacritech
Undisclosed
Kansas
$32,000,000
AOL
$750,000,000
Maryland
$10,500,000
Apple
$250,000,000
Massachusetts
$34,000,000
Arizona
$104,600,000
Minnesota
$240,000,000
AT&T
Undisclosed
Montana
$12,300,000
Be
$23,250,000
Mythic
Still in court
Bristol
$4,100,000
Nebraska state
$22,600,000
Burst
$60,000,000
New Mexico
$3,150,000
California
$1,100,000,000
North Carolina
$89,000,000
Carlos Armando (1)
$8,960,000
North Dakota
$9,000,000
Columbia
$6,200,000
Novell
$536,000,000
Discrimation Suit (2)
Still in court?
Private (5)
$10,500,000
DR DOS/Caldera
$500,000,000
Real
Still in court
Employee fired (3)
$ 9,000,000
Sendo
Undisclosed
Eolas
$521,000,000
South Dakota
$9,330,000
EU
$613,000,000
Daum (4)
$8,600,000
Florida
$202,000,000
SPX
$62,000,000
Forgent
Still in court
Stac
$83,000,000
Gateway
$150,000,000
Sun
$1,950,000,000
Go
Still in court
Perma Temps
$96,000,000
IBM
$850,000,000
Tennessee
$64,000,000
Immersion
$35,000,000
Vermont
$9,700,000
Intertrust
$440,000,000
Wordperfect suit
Still in court
Iowa
$2,000,000
E-data
Still in court
(1) Carlos Armando is a Guatamalan inventor. The lawsuit was over a method to "transfer data between Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Access using a single spreadsheet."
(2) "In 2001, seven former and current African-American employees of Microsoft sued the software giant for race discrimination, seeking $5 billion in damages and forbidden
(3) "A forbidden filed against Microsoft. In forbidden Microsoft, workers accused company of improperly denying them benefits."
(4) South Korean Internet portal
(5) A judge in Baltimore told Microsoft to pay that sum to up to 500,000 customers who bought Windows direct from Microsoft
* UPDATE Thanks to Groklaw and Mr. Jaffar for their assistance. Ten more cases have now been added and the total in the coffer now exceeds the $9 billion mark:
Time Line Settled, undisclosed
Ticketmaster Settled, undisclosed
Priceline Still in court?
Goldtouch technology Settled, undisclosed
Syn’x $ 250,000
eLeaders Settled, undisclosed
e-Pass Still in court
Roger Avary (6) Still in court
Arendi Holdings Still in court?
Borland $100,000,000
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=24621
Microsoft's lawsuit payouts to Immersion and others total over $9 Billion
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