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Details are scarce so far, but Microsoft has filed a lawsuit against Salesforce.com for allegedly infringing nine unspecified Microsoft CRM-related patents.
Microsoft posted a statement on its Web site acknowledging it had taken legal action on May 18. Here’s an excerpt from that statement from Horacio Gutierrez, corporate vice president and deputy [...]
ShareIn a modest boost for a brand-new Google effort to overhaul Web video, Microsoft said Wednesday it will “support” the open-source, royalty-free WebM technology–as long as Windows users install software on their own.
Google launched the WebM project Wednesday at Google I/O, drawing support from Mozilla and Opera for the video technology based on its VP8 [...]
ShareMicrosoft announced that it would pay $200 million to settle a patent-infringement suit leveled against it by VirnetX, which builds communication and collaboration technologies, including a method for establishing secure communication links between computers on a virtual network. In March, a Texas jury had found that Microsoft infringed on two [...]
ShareBid for Position has lost an appeal to a ruling that its bidding system patent was not infringed by Google’s or AOL’s search advertising purchasing system. The decision of the lower court was affirmed by the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit this week.
Bid for Position owns rights to US Patent #7,225,151, titled “Online [...]
ShareA federal appeals court on Thursday rejected Microsoft Corp’s (MSFT: 29.16, -0.1275, -0.44%) request for a rehearing in its patent infringement suit with Canadian technology company i4i Ltd.
The two companies have been in dispute for more than three years regarding a feature in Microsoft Word’s application.
Toronto-based i4i was awarded $290 million last August after it [...]
ShareAs Microsoft struggles to fight off several high-visibility patent lawsuits, an ophthalmologist in Wisconsin has filed another patent infringement suit that potentially could cost the software giant an eye-popping amount.
The suit, filed in U.S. District for the Western District of Wisconsin earlier this week, alleges that Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) Zune [...]
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Microsoft isn’t the name that comes to mind when you think of the world’s most inventive tech company. But if you measure inventiveness by the quality and usefulness of patents, Microsoft tops the tech world, according to three different reports in the last few months.
The IEEE Spectrum Patent Scorecard rates Microsoft [...]
ShareA company which won a $100+ million payout from Microsoft this week is applying for an upgrade. VirnetX, which won cases involving XP and Vista is now bringing similar claims over Windows 7.
The cases involved patents on virtual private networks, which are effectively networks built on top of existing networks, usually with a higher level [...]
ShareIn what’s become an ugly triangle of legal disputes over DVR patents, Microsoft has filed suit against TiVo, a move that appears to be more about defending partner AT&T, which is being sued by TiVo in another suit.
Did you catch all that? Here’s a bullet-point breakdown:
TiVo has sued AT&T and Verizon alleging that their video [...]
ShareMicrosoft’s founder and the world’s richest man, Bill Gates, has just jointed Twitter. You can start following him at @BillGates.
Bill Gates is many things: software giant, philanthropist, and now Twitter user.
As of a few hours ago, the Microsoft chairman is one of the millions offering brief takes on their world to anyone who wants [...]
ShareEnterprises shouldn’t worry about the U.S. Federal Court of Appeals injunction barring Microsoft from selling Word 2007 and Office 2007 in the US on January 11, 2010. The court upheld a ruling that an XML feature included in Word infringed on a patent held by i4i. As i4i rejoices over its $290 million vindication award, [...]
ShareMicrosoft has reached agreement with European Union anti-trust regulators to allow European users a choice of web browsers.
The accord ends 10 years of dispute between the two sides.
Over that time, the EU imposed fines totalling 1.68bn euros ($2.44bn, £1.5bn).
The European Commission said Microsoft’s legally binding agreement ended the dispute and averted a possible fine for [...]