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[News] Microsoft Keeps Collecting Software Patents and Gets Sued for Violating Some

  • Subject: [News] Microsoft Keeps Collecting Software Patents and Gets Sued for Violating Some
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 09:08:24 +0000
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Pfizer, Microsoft, Viacom: Intellectual Property (Update1)

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| Microsoft Corp., the worldâs largest software 
| company, received a patent for a method of 
| encoding and transmitting network data over a 
| satellite network.
| 
| According to patent 7,644,092, one of 4,484 
| U.S. patents issued yesterday, the technology 
| would enable Internet protocol data packets of 
| variable length to be encoded and sent through 
| a fixed-length multi-packet transport system.
`----

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-02-17/pfizer-microsoft-estee-lauder-viacom-intellectual-property.html

Nazomi sues Amazon, Microsoft, Nokia over Java

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| California-based Nazomi late yesterday sued 
| several tech firms, including Amazon, 
| Microsoft and Nokia, for allegedly violating 
| patents it owns on translating Java code to 
| specific devices. Filed in a Los Angeles 
| court, the lawsuit complains that the three 
| main firms as well as Garmin, Iomega, Sling, 
| Vizio and Western Digital all have devices 
| that supposedly copy its techniques. These 
| include the Kindle and Zune as well as less 
| common devices like the Slingbox or Nokia's 
| tablet computers.
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http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/02/11/nazomi.says.kindle.zune.violate.patents/

Nokia, Microsoft, Amazon Sued on Translation Patents (Update2)

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| Nokia Corp., Microsoft Corp., and Amazon.com 
| Inc. were sued by a closely held company which 
| claims they used two patents used for 
| translating Java code for specific computers.
| 
| Nazomi Communications Inc. claims in the suit, 
| filed yesterday in federal court in Los 
| Angeles, that each of the companies sells 
| consumer electronics that infringe its 
| patents. The suit is seeking an order stopping 
| the infringement and unspecified damages.
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http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-02-09/nokia-microsoft-amazon-sued-on-translation-patents-update1-.html

Cognition In Licensing Deal With Microsoft

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| The firm--which is headed by Scott Jarus--said 
| it has licensed some of its proprietary 
| semantic technologies to Microsoft Corp. 
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http://www.socaltech.com/cognition_in_licensing_deal_with_microsoft/s-0026900.html

TecSec Aims Suits at IBM, Cisco, eBay

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| TecSec, a closely held firm near Washington 
| D.C., filed patent suits against IBM, Cisco, 
| Sun Microsystems and a host of other tech 
| companies after recently settling one with 
| Microsoft.
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http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/02/08/tecsec-aims-suits-at-ibm-cisco-ebay/


Recent:

Microsoft, Nokia, Amazon, others sued over hardware acceleration

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| A company called Nazomi Communications has
| sued a number of large companies for
| breaching patents it owns on hardware
| acceleration.
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http://www.tgdaily.com/business-and-law-features/45023-microsoft-nokia-amazon-others-sued-over-hardware-acceleration
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