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ShareSANTA CLARA, Calif., Jun 03, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) — BackWeb Technologies Ltd (Pink Sheets: BWEBF or BWEBF.PK) announced today that it had reached a settlement of its previously announced patent infringement litigation with Microsoft Corporation. Under the [...]
ShareThe U.S. Supreme Court refused to toughen the standards for patent-infringement lawsuits, rejecting Microsoft’s appeal in a case that at one point produced a $358 million verdict for Alcatel-Lucent.
The U.S. Supreme Court refused to toughen the standards for patent-infringement lawsuits, rejecting Microsoft’s appeal in a case that at one point produced [...]
ShareThe Supreme Court has turned down Microsoft Corp.’s appeal of a jury verdict that it infringed on another company’s patent.
The justices said Monday they will not intervene in Microsoft’s legal fight with Alcatel-Lucent. The disputed patent covers a method of entering information into fields on a computer screen without using a [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
Sharet’s not the newest new today that Microsoft and HTC have signed an intellectual property license agreement for all smartphones that run Google’s Android operating system. But, you had better know that this is an indication that Microsoft tries to beat its biggest competitor, Apple, who has already sued HTC for patent infringement recently.
“Microsoft has [...]
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 [...]