Microsoft will have its appeal in a long-running patent-infringement case with Canadian firm i4i heard by the U.S. Supreme Court. – The U.S. Supreme Court will hear Microsoft’s appeal in its long-running
patent case with Canadian firm i4i. That decision not only gives Microsoft yet
another shot at overturning a substantial monetary judgment, but gives the Supreme
Court a chance to leave its mark on the escalating patent-infri…
Microsoft finds its appeal in a patent-infringement case with Alcatel-Lucent turned down by the Supreme Court. A previous ruling by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit had upheld the verdict against Microsoft but overturned a $358 million judgment. Alcatel-Lucent says it intends to continue the legal battle in San Diego district court, where it hopes to secure a sizable monetary judgment. – Microsoft suffered a setback May 24 in its long-running
patent-infringement dispute with Alcatel-Lucent, when the Supreme Court
declined to hear the software giant’s appeal. A previous ruling, delivered by
the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, had upheld the verdict against
Microsoft bu…
Microsoft’s week centered on filing a lawsuit against Salesforce.com over alleged patent infringement, an action that some analysts thought indicative of a broader strategy. That lawsuit came as Microsoft arranged a $200 million out-of-court settlement with VirnetX over intellectual property issues. Also on the Web-based side of things, Microsoft announced a wide-ranging update to Hotmail, including new features for clutter-reduction and spam elimination, designed to help the e-mail service better compete against Googles Gmail and other rivals. – Microsofts legal activities dominated its week,
particularly its filing of an intellectual property suit against Salesforce.com
May 18, alleging infringement on nine of its patents. Microsoft may have
publicly cast that action as a standard-issue patent-infringement case a
relatively regular occ…
Microsoft was handed another setback in the long-running patent infringement case leveled against it by Canadian firm i4i, when the United States Patent and Trademark Office confirmed the validity of i4i’s patent at the center of the dispute. For some time, i4i has argued that both Microsoft Word 2003 and 2007 violate the patents custom XML-related properties. Faced with the potential for massive fines, Microsoft is considering whether to submit a petition to the Supreme Court over the matter.
– Microsoft faced another setback in a long-running
intellectual property case May 11, when the U.S. Patent
and Trademark Office confirmed the validity of a patent allegedly infringed by
the software giant. Canadian firm i4i insists that both Microsoft Word 2003 and
2007 violate its patents cu…
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 won its appeal in a patent-infringement case leveled against it by software company Uniloc, which originally won a $388 million judgment against Redmond. The victory represents a bright spot of news for Microsoft on the legal front, where it continues to battle Canadian company i4i in a patent-infringement suit related to Microsoft Word.
– Microsoft
received one favorable bit of legal news on Sept. 28, when a federal judge
ruled that the company did not infringe on a patent held by software company
Uniloc. A previous decision in the case had leveled $388 million in damages
against Microsoft.
quot;We are pleased that the court h…
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…
A $358 million judgment leveled against Microsoft in a patent infringement case is overturned by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Alcatel-Lucent had argued that Microsoft Outlook violated its patent for touch-screen form entry technology. Alcatel-Lucent was awarded $1.52 billion in February 2007 in a previous case involving the two companies, but that ruling was eventually overturned.
– Microsoft
finally received some good news in one of its high-profile legal battles on
Sept. 11, with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington
overturning a $358 million judgment leveled against the software maker in a
patent infringement case involving Alcatel-Lucent.
The…
Microsoft finds itself hit by a responding brief from i4i, the small Canadian company that claims Microsoft Word violates its XML-related patent. Although the original verdict was that Microsoft would have to pull copies of Word from store shelves within 60 days and pay nearly $300 million in fines, an appeals court ruled on Sept. 3 that Word could keep being sold during the case.
– Microsoft
finds itself embroiled in yet another round of the patent-infringement case
leveled against it by Canadian company i4i, which submitted a responding brief
on Sept. 8 rebutting Microsoft’s recent appeal.
In a statement following filing of the responding brief in the U.S. Court of
Appe…
Microsoft files its appeal brief in a patent-infringement case that could see copies of Microsoft Word pulled from stores. The original verdict, which stated that Microsoft had violated a custom XML patent held by i4i, a small Canadian company, also ordered Microsoft to pay nearly $300 million in fines. A technological workaround would possibly be difficult to execute; Microsoft’s other potential course of action would be to settle with i4i out of court.
– Microsoft
filed an appeal on Aug. 25 in a patent-infringement suit that threatens to yank
copies of Microsoft Word from store shelves and force the company to pay
hundreds of millions of dollars in fines. The issue centers on Word’s alleged
usage of custom XML covered in a
patent held by i4i, a…
