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Microsoft Settles Patent Infringement Case with VirnetX

May 17th, 2010 | No Comments

Microsoft 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 U.S. patents held by VirnetX, and ordered the software giant to pay $105.7 million in a substantial legal judgment. East Texas has been the site of much legal trouble for Microsoft as of late, with the company also facing a patent-infringement suit leveled against it by Canadian startup i4i. – <p>Microsoft& will pay $200 million
to settle an intellectual-property suit with VirnetX Holding, which alleged
that the software giant infringed on its patents related to communications,
virtualization and collaboration technology. That monetary amount represents a
substantial markup from the $…

Jury Decides for Red Hat, Novell in Software Patent Lawsuit

May 3rd, 2010 | No Comments

IP Innovation originally filed litigation against Novell and Red Hat in 2007. The Acacia Research subsidiary accuses the two companies of infringing on three patents that described technologies for sharing workloads among remotely located computers.
– One by one, intellectual property lawsuits against companies that use
open-source software in their products are falling by the wayside.

A jury in East Texas May 3 declared that user-interface
patent infringement claims filed against Red Hat and Novell by IP Innovation, a
subsidiary of Acacia …

Microsoft Detailed Windows Phone 7 Series, Citrix Partnership, Lawsuits This Week

March 21st, 2010 | No Comments

Microsoft’s week involved the MIX 10 conference in Las Vegas and the detailing of its upcoming Windows Phone 7 Series smartphone platform for developers, along with an announced virtualization partnership with Citrix Systems. While Windows Phone 7 Series will lack backward compatibility with Windows Mobile, Microsoft feels the upcoming devices’ application-development platform and consumer sheen will attract developers and consumers in equal measure. In addition to Microsofts advances in those areas, the company also faces two patent-infringement lawsuits in the same East Texas court that gave it so much trouble in 2009.
– Microsofts week centered on the MIX 10 conference in Las Vegas and more revelations about the Windows Phone 7 Series, as Microsoft seeks to draw developers to the upcoming smartphone platform.
If nothing else, Windows Phone 7 Series represents a clean break from Microsofts past in the smartphone ar…

Microsoft Faces Second VirnetX Patent Lawsuit

March 18th, 2010 | No Comments

Microsoft finds itself on the receiving end of a second lawsuit by small IT company VirnetX, after being hit with a $105.7 million judgment in the first suit. VirnetX is alleging that Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 infringe on its patents. Microsoft’s recent legal troubles in East Texas include a patent-infringement suit by Toronto-based i4i, which won a substantial judgment against Microsoft in 2009.
– Microsoft found itself subjected to yet another lawsuit by VirnetX on March
17, a day after losing a $105.7 million judgment to the smaller IT company in
an East Texas court.
The second lawsuit alleges that Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2
infringe on the same two VirnetX patents at issue in…

Microsoft Will Appeal VirnetX Ruling, $105.7M Judgment

March 17th, 2010 | No Comments

Microsoft plans to appeal the $105.7 million legal judgment leveled against it in a patent-infringement suit brought by VirnetX, which develops secure real-time communication links using secure domain names. VirnetX alleges that Microsoft infringed on two of its patents. Microsoft has battled a number of small IT companies in East Texas courts over the years, most recently in a 2009 case in which small Toronto-based IT company i4i alleged that certain editions of Microsoft Word infringed on its custom XML patent.
– Microsoft will appeal a $105.7 million legal judgment in a
patent-infringement case involving VirnetX Holding, a small communications and
collaboration technology company.
A Texas jury found March
16 that Microsoft had infringed on two U.S.
patents held by VirnetX: No. 6,502,135 B1, titled, …

Microsoft Windows 7 Ramp-Up Continues, Despite Legal Battles

September 13th, 2009 | No Comments

Microsoft’s week was one of legal maneuvers, featuring briefs submitted by Redmond in both its patent-infringement case against i4i and the Google Book Search settlement. Despite much of its news being dominated by court proceedings, Microsoft also continues to take steps in its long ramp-up to the release of Windows 7, its new operating system upon which it has pinned many of its corporate hopes.
– Microsoft’s
week could be described in one word: litigious.
The ongoing patent-infringement battle against i4i, the small Canadian
company that argued successfully before an East Texas
court that Microsoft Word violated its X M L-related patent, entered yet
another round on Sept. 8. On that da…

Microsoft Word Banned In U.S. By Texas Court

August 12th, 2009 | No Comments

Microsoft was ordered to cease sales and support of Microsoft Word after a U.S. District Court judge in Texas ruled that the company violated an XML-related patent held by small Canada-based technology company i4i. In addition, the ruling also leveled a multimillion dollar fine against Microsoft. East Texas has been the setting for a variety of patent-infringement lawsuits against IT giants such as Microsoft, Apple and Sony, with smaller IT firms often winning huge judgments or settling out of court.
– A U.S. District Court in Texas has banned the sale and
support of Microsoft Word in the United States, after a judge ruled that Microsoft had violated patents held
by Canada-based technology company i4i.

According to the permanent injunction filed on Aug. 11,
Microsoft is banned from quot;se…

Riot Police Storm Texas Town After Black, White Protesters Clash Over Dragging Death

July 21st, 2009 | No Comments

PARIS, Texas — State police in full riot gear rushed a downtown street in this eastern Texas town Tuesday to break up a tense standoff between hundreds of black and white protesters who exchanged screams of “Black power!” and “White powe…