In current financial year a lot of patent litigations have been filed by one or the other company on their rivals. Today with this article, I tend to bring up a patent rivalry that very hot cake in the market nowadays. This is a patent war going on between Google’s Motorola Mobility and Microsoft [...]
Each year the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) rates the quality of companies' patent portfolios, and this year again, Microsoft's portfolio is rated the strongest in the software industry. It's the third straight year that Microsoft has topped the IEEE Spectrum Patent Scorecard. In another independent survey released this week, Microsoft ranked [...]
Software giant Microsoft has paid $200 million to settle two patent infringement lawsuits filed by network security software maker VirnetX. VirnetX claimed that Microsoft had used VirnetX's patented virtual private network (VPN) without procuring a license from the company. The two companies settled their differences out of court, with Microsoft paying VirnetX $200 million [...]
