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From: Sr K	9/29/2005 7:53:03 PM
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Thu, Sep. 29, 2005 Nuance cries foul in Yahoo suit By Michele Chandler Mercury News Nuance Communications of Menlo Park has told Yahoo to keep its hands off Nuance's voice recognition technology. Technology company Nuance filed suit Wednesday against Yahoo in Santa Clara County Superior Court, accusing Yahoo of stealing trade secrets by hiring away 13 key engineers who had nearly completed its interactive speech technology project. Nuance said it would ask a Santa Clara County judge to block Yahoo from allowing the engineers to work on the technology Nuance developed to market to Yahoo and other Internet companies. Nuance said its voice recognition technology was at least 75 percent complete before its vice president of research and development, Larry Heck, took a job at Santa Clara-based Yahoo. About a dozen Nuance engineers on the project followed him to Yahoo this month, leading Nuance to conclude that Yahoo is attempting to swipe its technology. Yahoo denied colluding with Heck or the other engineers to steal Nuance's technology. ``We believe the claims are without merit and we plan to defend ourselves vigorously,'' Yahoo spokeswoman Kiersten Hollars said.

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