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Microsoft patent-infringement case to go to trial
News A federal judge ruled against Microsoft on Wednesday in a patent suit challenging "AutoPlay" technology included in recent versions of Microsoft Windows. As evidence to the contrary, TVI notes that its first patent is cited as a reference in the...
[October 14, 2004, 9:00]
Microsoft patent appeal heard
News A federal appeals court on Thursday wrestled with whether to overturn or uphold a lower court's $565m judgment against Microsoft in the biggest patent dispute in Web history. Microsoft was barred from showing the jury information about an early Web...
[December 10, 2004, 7:35]
Lawyer: Microsoft patent claims won't affect UK
News Katz said that Microsoft only has 51 patent applications in the UK, including several failed and pending applications. He added that, even if UK companies expand into the US or other countries with different patent regimes, they are unlikely to...
[September 14, 2007, 12:45]
Microsoft settles patent case with mouse maker
News Microsoft on Wednesday announced it has reached a settlement agreement with Primax Electronics, a mouse maker that the software company sued in July for patent infringement. There are more than 30 licensees from the mouse and keyboard industry in...
[December 18, 2008, 11:19]
Microsoft claims patent on web feeds
News By his estimation, Microsoft's patent claims were questionable, but, for better or worse, they were perhaps a response to the state of the US patent system, he wrote in a blog entry. Jason Matusow, Microsoft's director of corporate standards, said...
[December 22, 2006, 8:22]
Microsoft demands patent reform
News The US patent system needs to be reformed, says Microsoft, which spends millions of dollars a year fighting intellectual property lawsuits. Microsoft, typically faced with an average of 35 to 40 patent lawsuits at any given time, is particularly...
[March 14, 2005, 7:55]
Microsoft infringed patent, says appeals court
News A federal appeals court on Friday affirmed a lower court ruling that Microsoft infringed on a patent owned by Alcatel-Lucent, but said the jury award of $358m in damages was excessive. Lucent initially sued computer maker Gateway for the patent...
[September 14, 2009, 8:42]
Microsoft exec talks patent politics
News Many in the open-source community remain sceptical about Microsoft's overtures, believing them to be filled with inherent contradictions, such as Microsoft making patent-infringement allegations but also striking a deal with a vendor such as Novell.
[May 25, 2007, 17:13]
Microsoft hit by patent suit
News Just days after Microsoft fell out with Novell over its allegation that Linux contains its intellectual property, the software giant has become embroiled in another patent dispute. Lucent, which is due to merge with Alcatel by November 30, was...
[November 23, 2006, 14:32]
Microsoft walks the patent tightrope
News To patent or not to patent, that is the question for Microsoft. Microsoft is maturing as a company; we're not the same company as we were a year ago, and our patent portfolio isn't the same.We have to be predictable and a little more mature about...
[February 4, 2004, 9:00]
Microsoft loses Eolas patent ruling
News In 2003, a jury awarded more than $500 million in damages to the university and Eolas, but an appeals court this year partially upheld Microsoft's appeal, saying the company should be able to present evidence that similar inventions predated Eolas...
[September 30, 2005, 10:10]
Microsoft loses $200m patent violation case
News A federal jury in Tyler, Texas, on Wednesday ordered Microsoft to pay $200m in a patent infringement case. We believe the evidence clearly demonstrated that we do not infringe and that the i4i patent is invalid," Microsoft spokesman David
[May 21, 2009, 12:03]
Microsoft faces second patent claim
News InterTrust on Tuesday said it has received a new patent that it will use against Microsoft in a closely watched intellectual property dispute that could affect the way consumers access music and other digital content.
[June 27, 2001, 10:46]
Microsoft defeat stirs patent concerns
News A patent-infringement judgment against Microsoft and its Internet Explorer browser has raised speculation over which company in the Web browser market might be the next target of Microsoft's pursuer. Eolas Technologies, a University of California...
[August 14, 2003, 14:55]
Microsoft, Nikon agree patent-sharing deal
News Nikon and Microsoft didn't indicate what new products and features would be enabled through the patent agreement, but they did point to existing co-operative efforts involving wireless cameras and raw-image formats.
[August 28, 2008, 9:43]
Microsoft settles IE patent dispute with Eolas
News Microsoft has settled a long-running and expensive lawsuit with Eolas Technologies, a start-up backed by the University of California, that alleged Internet Explorer infringed a patent. Microsoft revamped Internet Explorer to work around the patent...
[August 31, 2007, 9:50]
Patent loss creates pro-Microsoft alliances
News To some competitors and partners who have long been chafed by Microsoft's dominance, the verdict in the patent infringement lawsuit by one-man software company Eolas may initially have seemed an overdue victory -- and one that achieved what the US...
[September 26, 2003, 10:25]
Microsoft slammed over XML patent
Talkback I don't know the particulars of the Microsoft patent but I'm sure I could scare up some design notes that might establish prior art. I worked for Bowstreet. We were serializing communications and programming objects into and out of XML before 2000.
[June 2, 2005, 18:51]
Microsoft slammed over XML patent
Talkback Microsoft SHOULD NOT BE AWARDED WITH THE PATENT! Would this mean that C++ or other programming languages are being patent? Of course not!
[June 3, 2005, 0:20]
Microsoft's open-source patent threat still intact
News Companies that engage in commercial distribution of these protocol implementations will be able to obtain a patent licence from Microsoft, as will enterprises that obtain these implementations from a distributor that does not have such a patent...
[February 22, 2008, 12:03]
