H5 is profitable, says Economou, though it is spending heavily to support 400% annual growth.
"It took 82 years to get the H5 designated as a war grave, " said Mr Bowyer.
But he says H5 helped RealNetworks prepare an antitrust suit against Microsoft a couple of years ago.
More recently, Anne Kershaw, a litigation management consultant, pitted six lawyers and paralegals against H5 in a search of 48, 000 documents.
Then H5 lawyers, engineers and linguists draw up patterns of words that might be used to express various elements of the scheme.
Among those on board the H5 who died was an American - the first American to be killed on a submarine in warfare.
The crew members of the Rutherglen were paid a bounty for sinking the H5 but were never told it was a British sub.
The H5 in H5N1 stands for hemagglutinin type 5, meaning the fifth known type of hemagglutinin found on the coatings of influenza viruses.
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Bird flu has been detected, but Defra said initial tests were negative for the H5 and H7 strains, which are a potential threat to humans.
Economou started H5's predecessor in 1999, intending to build the next great Web-search tool based on technology developed by the father of a Wharton classmate.
Matt James, the chief executive of H5, said the plans build on changes introduced under Labour but which languished during Gordon Brown's time as prime minister.
But he says H5 helped RealNetworks (nasdaq: RNWK - news - people ) prepare an antitrust suit against Microsoft a couple of years ago.
In a typical securities case, H5 huddles with lawyers and a corporate organizational chart to define the theory of the case and which employees might have taken part in it.
He has also spent a fair amount polishing H5's image: The firm's "advisory board" includes former Harvard Law School professor Arthur Miller and John Seely Brown, onetime chief scientist at Xerox Corp.
H5 virus which is responsible for avian flu, a disease that has forced a mass slaughter of poultry in many countries and could, if it mutates, cause a deadly epidemic among humans.
He has also spent a fair amount polishing H5's image: The firm's "advisory board" includes former Harvard Law School professor Arthur Miller and John Seely Brown, onetime chief scientist at Xerox Corp. (nyse: XRX - news - people ) Economou rented the Library of Congress earlier this year for a glittering reception after a conference at which speakers included U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.
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