Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products NV (L&H) announced several changes in its top management on Thursday. Co-founders Jo Lernout and Pol Hauspie have stepped down from their positions as co-chairmen and managing directors.
In what appears to be the first-ever Internet-related ruling on keywords worldwide, Monsterboard.nl, a subsidiary of American careers Web site Monster.com, is to stop linking its banner advertisement to the keyword "Intermediair" on Dutch search engine Vindex, as the result of a ruling by the court in The Hague which found Monsterboard.nl guilty of trademark infringement in a case brought by Dutch publisher VNU.