Microsoft Goes To US Supreme Court Over i4i Patent

Microsoft has reached a legal agreement with Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer HTC where the latter must pay the software giant $5 for each Android handset that it makes, even if they don't make it to the market. A report...

Microsoft Corp. has downplayed the possible weakening of patent law if the ruling of the ongoing i4i-Microsoft patent infringement case goes in their favor. Thomas Hungar, the attorney from an Washington DC law firm who is...

Just within a few days after striking a patent cross-licensing deal with the online retailing giant Amazon, Microsoft Corp has announced that its has penned a similar agreement with a Japanese computer peripheral...

Microsoft and Panasonic have announced a patent licensing deal in which Microsoft will share its extended file sharing system, a technology designed to allow devices with flash memory to run multimedia rich...

Amazon and Microsoft have just entered into a cross-licensing patent agreement which would enable both the companies to access each other’s portfolio; the deal encompasses a wide array of products and technologies. The...

Microsoft Corp. has announced that it has penned a patent-sharing agreement with the Japanese LCD TV manufacturer Funai. The new cross-licensing agreement between the two companies would help Funai to incorporate...

Microsoft received a major relief in a patent violation case yesterday when a US federal judge overturned a jury ruling which had found it liable for infringing a patent held by anti-piracy software maker Uniloc Inc and had...

Microsoft has finally ventured into open source domain with a non profit organisation, dubbed as “CodePlex Foundation”, aimed at encouraging software companies to participate more in open source software...

Navigation device maker TomTom has agreed to make patent payouts to Microsoft for five years, settling a lawsuit brought against it by the software giant. TomTom said that the settlement does not break any licence terms for the...

A navigation device company that is being sued by Microsoft in a patent dispute has joined the Open Innovation Network, a collection of companies that pools its Linux-related patents to defend against legal action.Linux is an...

Microsoft has filed a lawsuit against navigation device maker TomTom, claiming that its technology infringes Microsoft-owned patents. Some of the alleged infringement is a result of TomTom's use of Linux technology, Microsoft...

Google Inc. on Monday rolled out a beta version of its signature Google Sync service for Windows powered smartphones and iPhone, a software application that syncs Google calendar items and Gmail contacts across the internet with...

Microsoft has settled a long-running patent infringement suit with Eolas and the University of California in a case which has been running since 1999. Microsoft will make an undisclosed payment to Eolas.Eolas had claimed that...

UPDATED: Microsoft has renewed its assault on open source software with a claim that open source operating systems violate over 200 of its patents. The claim joins a long list of Microsoft anti-open source patent claims.Microsoft...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has said that every user of the open source Linux system could owe his company money for using its intellectual property. The statement will confirm the worst fears of the open source...