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1. Google, Microsoft, Yahoo others sued over mapping software

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Monday, 09 November 2009

   ... for the Eastern Distric of Texas, Marshall Division. That's a fast tracking patent court. The defendants include Expedia, Google, Microsoft, the Washington Post, Ticketmaster, Travelocity, Tripadvisor, ...

2. Uniloc prepares to fight for its $388 million

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Thursday, 01 October 2009

   Uniloc is refusing to take its court defeat lying down, and is to appeal against the shock overturning of its successful patent infringement claim against Microsoft. Uniloc is refusing to take its court ...

3. Judge overturns Microsoft patent judgement

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Tuesday, 29 September 2009

   A district judge has overturned a jury verdict that hit Microsoft with the world's largest ever patent damages. A district judge has overturned a jury verdict that hit Microsoft with the world's largest ...

4. Microsoft wins appeal against $358 million fine

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Friday, 11 September 2009

   The federal appeals court has ruled that while Microsoft did infringe an Alcatel-Lucent patent, a fine of $358 million imposed on it was too stiff.The federal appeals court has ruled that while Microsoft ...

5. i4i challenges Microsoft's 'weak defenses'

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Wednesday, 09 September 2009

   i4i has challenged Microsoft's claims over a disputed custom XML patent by filing a responding brief in the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. As TG Daily previously reported, the ...

6. Open source group buys up Microsoft patents

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Monday, 07 September 2009

     After years of accusations from Microsoft that Linux violates its patents, open source group Open Invention Network (OIN) is buying a set of patents which used to belong to the company. After ...

7. Microsoft wins temporary stay of Word injunction

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Thursday, 03 September 2009

   The US Court of Appeals has accepted Microsoft's request to postpone a controversial injunction that would have barred sales of its popular Word application. The injunction - imposed by a Texas-based ...

8. HP and Dell launch legal blitzkrieg against i4i

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Thursday, 27 August 2009

   Hewlett Packard and Dell have launched a legal blitzkrieg against i4i in an effort to overturn an injunction blocking the sale of Microsoft Word. The two industry heavyweights are now demanding that ...

9. Intel, AMD, Nvidia, Microsoft, Apple, Google others sued over patent

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Tuesday, 25 August 2009

   ... time round, as we reported on the IT Examiner, a heap of firms got a writ from Xpoint.The company launched a patent action in a Delaware court suing Microsoft, Intel, Marvell, Hewlett Packard, Cypress,  ...

10. Mozilla finally loses all credibility

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Friday, 21 August 2009

    Opinion - You couldn't make this stuff up. The Mozilla Corporation - and never was the word 'corporation' applied to such an undeserving bunch of spineless no-hopers - is now whingeing that Microsoft's ...

11. i4i pledges to 'vigorously enforce' XML patent as Microsoft appeals injunction

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 19 August 2009

    i4i has pledged to 'vigorously enforce' its custom XML patent despite Microsoft's decision to appeal an injunction preventing the sale of MS Word 2003/2007. San Francisco (CA) - i4i has pledged to 'vigorously ...

12. Microsoft appeals in XML patent row

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 18 August 2009

    As expected, Microsoft has filed a motion to block an injunction that threatens to stop the company from shipping its flagship word processor, Word, saying that an earlier court ruling in favor of Canadian ...

13. Microsoft, Scottrade, Southwest Airlines sued over patent

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 17 August 2009

    ... Technology sued Microsoft, Scottrade Inc and Southwest Airlines over patents claimed to have been breached. The patents relate to the ability to view web sites on cellphones and other small devices. The ...

14. i4i 'not interested' in bringing Microsoft to its knees

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 12 August 2009

    i4i Chairman Loudon Owen has told TG Daily that his company has 'no interest' in bringing Microsoft to its knees. According to Owen, i4i remains focused on enforcing its custom XML patent and ensuring ...

15. Judge's injunction hammer comes down on Microsoft Word's head

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 11 August 2009

    A US judge told Microsoft yesterday that it is forbidden to sell Microsoft Word in the USA because it breaches an existing patent.A US judge told Microsoft yesterday that it is forbidden to sell Microsoft ...

16. New look for Microsoft Retail Stores

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Sunday, 09 August 2009

    Microsoft's upcoming retail outlets targeting Apple's stores will have a shiny new logo. Seattle (WA) - Microsoft's upcoming retail outlets targeting Apple's stores will have a shiny new logo. According ...

17. Apple, Microsoft, others sued over touchpad products

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 17 July 2009

    A case started in a US district court alleging that Microsoft, Apple and a host of other defendants have breached a patent relating to touchpad technology.A case started in a US district court alleging ...

18. Bill Gates reckons he can control the weather

    (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

    Thursday, 16 July 2009

    ... thus sapping hurricanes of their force. The company is a subsidiary of Intellectual Ventures, which was founded by former Microsoft executives to develop patent applications for new ideas. Gates is listed ...

19. Microsoft buys Israeli company linked to Project Natal

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Wednesday, 24 June 2009

    Microsoft has confirmed the acquisition of 3DV Systems, an Israeli company that specializes in advanced image sensing technology. A number of patents owned by 3DV Systems and Prime Sense have reportedly ...

20. TG Daily’s Dads and Grads Product Giveaway: Play along and win!

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 19 June 2009

    ... backs up multiple PCs using Microsoft® Windows Home Server Backup or Macs using Mac OS X Time Machine software •    Conveniently schedules the MediaSmart Server to copy and centralize digital ...

21. Patent trolls live under the bridge

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 04 June 2009

    ... question here is who is doing the trolling. Large vendors like Microsoft, Intel and others have phalanxes of lawyers that can be more or less instantly deployed to contest patent infringement cases and ...

22. Microsoft sued over dynamic web page generation

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 01 June 2009

    A case started in a Texas district court at the end of May 2009, with Microsoft being sued for allegedly breaching two patents.A case started in a Texas district court at the end of May 2009, with Microsoft ...

23. Microsoft forced to cough up $200 million

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 21 May 2009

    Software behemoth Microsoft was ordered yesterday to pay $200 million to Canadian company i4i.Software behemoth Microsoft was ordered yesterday to pay $200 million to Canadian company i4i. The decision ...

24. Microsoft waves its Magic Wand

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 18 May 2009

    Seattle wizard Microsoft has patented a device called the "Magic Wand", fuelling speculation that it may pull a rabbit out of the hat at the forthcoming E3 gaming conference. Seattle wizard Microsoft ...

25. Microsoft gets former Sun chip guru, but why?

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 10 April 2009

    A Microsoft spokeswoman has confirmed that former Sun Microsystems chip guru, Marc Tremblay, is leaving sun for the Redmond software giant, as was reported in the New York Times on Tuesday. His title ...

26. Microsoft loses patent case, ordered to pay $388 million

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 09 April 2009

    A security software company called Uniloc has defeated Goliath in open court. Microsoft was ordered by a jury to pay $388 million in damages for infringing on an anti-piracy patent held by Uniloc. Microsoft ...

27. Microsoft and TomTom settle patent case out of court

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Tuesday, 31 March 2009

    Microsoft announced today that the company has settled all patent infringement cases brought by Microsoft before the U.S. Distrouct Court for the Western District of Washington (state) and the International ...

28. More iPhone OS 3.0 features emerge: Video record, Internet tethering, Find My iPhone

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 23 March 2009

    ... items synced with corporate Microsoft Exchange accounts. FIND A STOLEN IPHONE AND REMOTE-WIPE ITS CONTENTSThe new setting (dubbed "Find My iPhone") enables you to ping your iPhone via MobileMe web ...

29. European Commission rewards Microsoft for playing nice

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 04 March 2009

    The European Commission (EC) today said that it will recall a full time monitoring trustee watching Microsoft as Microsoft’s competitive behavior has improved for the better. Brussels (Belgium) – ...

30. Microsoft sues TomTom: All your GPS logics are belong to us

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Thursday, 26 February 2009

    Microsoft has filed a lawsuit in US district court, as well as with the International Trade Commission, against the Netherlands-based TomTom company, manufacturer of a wide array of GPS devices. After ...

31. Apple absent from MWC, but iPhone still on everyone's lips

    (Mobility/Mobility Opinion)

    Wednesday, 18 February 2009

    ... Journal's Walt Mossberg moderated panel (that included CEOs of Microsoft, AT&T and Nokia), Steve Ballmer couldn't resist bashing Apple's vertically integrated approach, pitting Apple's vertically integrated ...

32. Nvidia passionately responds to Intel court filing

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Wednesday, 18 February 2009

    ... industry and consumers now count on innovations from NVIDIA. Microsoft recently endorsed ION because it offers consumers the first truly affordable premium Windows experience. Late last year Apple selected ...

33. Red Hat and Microsoft play nice on virtualization

    (Software/Software Features)

    Tuesday, 17 February 2009

    Microsoft and Red Hat have joined forces on a virtualization interoperability pact that will be great for customers -- especially those who utilized mixed source. Yesterday, it was announced that each ...

34. Microsoft receives 10,000th patent, links objects to data

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 10 February 2009

    Microsoft announced today they had received their 10,000th patent, number 7,479,950, entitled "Manipulating association of data with a physical object," which sounds ironic enough. Redmond (WA) - Microsoft ...

35. Palm vs. Apple: Old play, new roles

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Wednesday, 28 January 2009

      Analyst Opinion - Watching this new battle between Apple and Palm almost looks like a remake of an old play or movie but with Apple in Microsoft's role and Palm as Linux.  Not too many years ...

36. IBM faces a new EU antitrust complaint

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Tuesday, 20 January 2009

    ... and IBM are currently involved in a U.S. suit whereby IBM alleges patent infringement, and T3 alleges antitrust abuses.Last week, Microsoft announced it was under investigation by the EU Comission on antitrust ...

37. IBM again top US patent holder, vows to go after lesser claims

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

    Wednesday, 14 January 2009

    ... In order, #3 Canon had 2114, #4 Microsoft had 2030, #5 Intel had 1776, #6 Matsushita (now part of Panasonic Corp) had 1745, #7 Toshiba had 1609, #8 Fujitsu had 1494, #9 Sony had 1485 and #10 HP had 1424. IBM ...

38. Intel, Microsoft, HP, Dell and others sued over patent dispute

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Wednesday, 14 January 2009

    Delaware - A case in the 12th district court names Intel, Microsoft, HP, Dell and others in a case involving an alleged patent infringement of operating system recovery systems, according to IT Examiner. Xpoint ...

39. A world free from DRM, copyrights and patents

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Tuesday, 13 January 2009

    ... becomes a matter of building skills and production. Could you do it? What if it was a software endeavor? Suppose all of Microsoft's operating systems were suddenly free and some rogue programmer at ...

40. Symantec, Microsoft, AVG and 22 other companies sued for security patent infringement

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Tuesday, 06 January 2009

    ... includes: Symantec, Microsoft, AVG, CA, Check Point, Comodo, Eset, F-Secure, Iolo Technologies, Kaspersky Labs, Mcafee, Microworld Technologies, Netveda, Norman Data Defense Systems, Novell, PC Tools, ...

41. Apple, Microsoft and Google sued over file previews

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 30 December 2008

    Those small thumbnail images commonly used my operating systems and web browsers to illustrate the content of a file are at the heart of a new lawsuit filed by Cygnus against Apple, Microsoft and Google. ...

42. Microsoft patents "pay-as-you-use" computer leasing

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Monday, 29 December 2008

    Microsoft received a Christmas present from the USPTO this year in the form of a new patent on what the company describes as a type of pay-to-play computing. Although the specifics of the approved application ...

43. Showdown: iPhone vs. Blackberry Storm

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Friday, 21 November 2008

    ... Camera: 3.1 megapixel with flash, 2x incremental zoom, video recording Connectors: 3.5mm headphone jack, mini USB, microSDHC slot Email: Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Domino, Novell GroupWise, POP3/IMAP Battery ...

44. Sun and Microsoft in search deal

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 10 November 2008

      Sun today said that it will use its Java platform to promote Microsoft’s Internet Explorer toolbar to the U.S.-based Internet users.  Sun already has a similar deal in place with Yahoo and ...

45. Blizzcon multiboxers – dinner with the most hated people in World of Warcraft

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Tuesday, 14 October 2008

    ... couple from Seattle Washington, and side-by-side multiboxers also attended.  Both are Microsoft employees and fatefully met during company orientation day – now how cool is that?  Suvega's claim ...

46. Apple rocks. And puts us to sleep.

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Tuesday, 09 September 2008

    ... And that may be Apple’s biggest problem. There are expectations that go far beyond you would expect from an Intel, a Microsoft or even Google. And it is simply impossible for Apple to have a killer product ...

47. Microsoft and Nikon sign cross-licensing agreement

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Thursday, 28 August 2008

      Microsoft said it has signed a cross-licensing agreement with Nikon relating to a range of consumer electronics, including digital cameras. While financial details were not released, the two companies ...

48. Patent infringement suit hiccup: Immersion sues, Microsoft gets the money

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 27 August 2008

      The never ending story of Immersion’s Touchsense patent infringement suit against Sony and Microsoft has finally come to an end, with an example of legal brilliancy. While Microsoft was sued and ...

49. iPhone 2.1 firmware update looms, delivers missing features?

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Thursday, 31 July 2008

    ... features sadly missing from 2.0? True, the current firmware was huge step ahead over 1.1.4 as it added important enterprise capabilities such as Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync for push email, contact and ...

50. Best and worst moments of Bill Gates

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 26 June 2008

    By now you know that Bill Gates is taking a retirement of sorts and will relinquish his daily duties at Microsoft.  We’ve written a few articles about his accomplishments, but I think it’s interesting ...