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... a company protect its trade secrets? Should spying upon your own board members and tapping their phone conversations be a routine business practice? Hewlett-Packard ... changing rules of corporate spy games. A Dow Jones MarketWatch article notes that "Hewlett-Packard Co. is ranked second on Business Ethics magazine's 100 best ... 2006" and the article points to some specific reasons why. But, in light of the company's methods to uncover sources of leaks, the good will gained from such efforts comes ...

... , was hired by Florida-based Action Research Group, a contractor Hewlett-Packard paid to get to the bottom of boardroom leaks to the media. To obtain the personal phone records of reporters, Eye in the Sky, according to court records, tricked phone companies under false pretenses to obtain the records - a concept referred to as pretexting. Under a settlement Wednesday with the FTC, Action Research Group's owners Matthew DePantes ...

... it has filed a lawsuit (Docket No. 1:09cv1256) in the Eastern District of Virginia against Hewlett-Packard, Sapphire Technology Limited (a Hong Kong company) and Taiwan Microloops Corporation (a Taiwanese registered company, herein referred to as ... sold through another OEM, ODM or distributor. And, although lawsuits are currently only being brought against these three companies, Convergence maintains the right to take legal actions against other endusers at a later time. It is therefore important ...

... strategy is a departure from the approach under former CEO Carly Fiorina, who tried to boost the company's profile as an innovator, said Rich Doherty, an analyst the The Envisioneering Group who follows ... pretexting" scandal. See previous IPBiz posts: http://ipbiz.blogspot.com/2005/02/fiorina-out-at-hewlett-packard.html http://ipbiz.blogspot.com/2006/10 ... Machines Corp. generated more U.S. patents than any other company, according to data from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office compiled by research ...

... the case of Hewlett-Packard that arose out of the scandal over pretexting. See In re Hewlett-Packard, Exchange Act Release No. 55801 (admin proc May 23, 2007). As was widely reported, an investigation had been initiated ... . In an area when the SEC has spent considerable energy attempting to increase accountability within public companies, this was a missed opportunity to emphasize the role of the board and the importance of the disclosure. It reflects the overall unimportance of the provision to ...

... and three others agreed not to contest misdemeanor charges. Last fall, H-P disclosed that PIs retained by the company used pretexting - gaining access to private phone records through false pretenses - to spy on board members and others. (For H-P Law Blog coverage, click here.) Wrote Lockyer, now the state treasurer: The Hewlett-Packard pretexting case certainly has culprits. Neither I nor lawyers at the Justice Department are among them. The defendants ...

The US Consumer Product Safety Commission and Hewlett-Packard, Dell, and Toshiba are working together to recall some 35,000 lithium-ion batteries used in the companies' notebook computers because of concerns that the batteries could overheat and catch fire. The batteries are made by Sony Energy Devices Corporation. An additional 65,000 Sony batteries outside the United States are also part of the Sony recall. In the United States, the batteries were sold separately, as ...

Hewlett-Packard will settle with the state of California charges that it violated the privacy of Board members. The company will pay $14.5 million in a settlement with the California attorney general over the company's use of private detectives to Certain executives authorized company employees to access phone records of members of the Board of Directors and journalists, while investigating alleged leaks of Board meetings and discussions. Some ...

Hewlett-Packard said yesterday that its longtime chief financial officer, Robert P. Wayman, would retire at the end of this month and leave the company's board in March. His departure, which he said had long been planned, leaves another board vacancy in what has been a tumultuous period for the company. Mr. Wayman, who will be [...]

... News, the denouement of the case by the California Attorney General against former HP chairman, Patricia Dunn, as well as a former company lawyer and two private investigators. The case arose out of elaborate attempts to track down a mole on the company's board of directors who was leaking internal information to the press. We've reported extensively on the case, including most recently here. Under a deal reached with the AG, all charges ...