An update was just released on the latest law suit, Duke. It appears some very hungry lawyers are pulling a copycat suite against CPQ and others now that they've gotten Toshiba to settle. CPQ says its bunk (for them, at least):
PC makers hit with Toshiba
copycat suits
By Joe Wilcox
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
November 2, 1999, 8:35 a.m. PT
update The attorneys who negotiated a $2.1 billion
settlement regarding a problem with Toshiba notebooks
are now going after five other PC makers with similar
suits.
Lawyers for the two plaintiffs in the Toshiba case filed suit this
past weekend against
Compaq Computer, NEC
Corporation, Hewlett-Packard,
Packard-Bell NEC, and
Emachines, alleging the
companies sold notebook
computers with defective
floppy drives.
"We're confident Compaq
products have no problems as
discussed in the complaint,"
said Compaq spokesperson
Alan Hodel. "The complaint
filed against Compaq appears
to be a copycat suit filed in an
attempt to exploit the settlement by Toshiba."
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