Microsoft Corp.

Application by Atvos Agroindustrial Investimentos S.A., described as "an indirect subsidiary of the Odebrecht Group, a leading Brazil-based global organization in the fields of engineering and construction, real estate, oil and gas, petrochemicals, infrastructure, shipbuilding and agroindustry, with a presence in several countries around the world", to take discovery from WhatsApp Inc., Google LLC, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., and Yahoo! Inc. for use in "a number of ongoing and rapidly developing legal actions in Brazil" regarding "an illegal hostile takeover attempt of one of Brazil's largest agribusinesses by Lone Star Funds, a U.S.-based vulture fund", filed at the U. S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Complaint in YA Global Investments, L.P., formerly Cornell Capital Partners, L.P., and Yorkville Advisors, LLC v. United States of America, Microsoft Corp., CoroWare, Inc., formerly Innova Robotics and Automation, Inc. and Innova Holdings, Inc.; CoroWare Technologies, Inc. Robotic Workspace Technologies, Inc., Robotic Software Services, Inc., formerly Altronics Service, Inc.; and Innova Robotics, Inc., formerly Service Robotics, Inc., at the U. S. District Court for the District of New Jersey.

Washington-based computer technology giant Microsoft Corporation has filed a complaint against an offshore firm and another party, alleging trademark infringement concerning 232 Internet domain names. Microsoft filed the action against Softech Ltd., a Cayman Islands corporation, and Field, Lake & Sky Inc., a Wyoming corporation based in Denver, Colorado, at the U. S. District Court for the District of Colorado on January 16, 2008.

The U. S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission has announced that its Division of Enforcement was awarded “a record total of more than $540 million in civil monetary penalties, restitution, and disgorgement from respondents and defendants in actions involving fraud, manipulation, and other misconduct” for its fiscal year ended September 30, 2007; In other regulatory news, here's a list of actions taken recently by regulators in offshore financial centers; and Microsoft Corp. has become the latest big company to sue a business, purportedly domiciled in the Cayman Islands, that registers and warehouses domain names that are confusingly similar to registered Trademarks of established enterprises.