Microsoft Sued Over Patent Infringements

Foobar of Borg writes "The Associated Press is reporting that Microsoft is being sued over alleged infringement of three patents held by Visto Corporation. The patents in question relate to the handling of information between servers and handheld telcom devices. Jack Evans, a Microsoft spokesman, has not commented on the case itself, but has simply stated that 'Microsoft stands behind its products and respects intellectual property rights.'"

"intellectual" property

[KiloByte]

'Microsoft stands behind its products and respects intellectual property rights.'

Correction: this sentence lacks the second "its" (just after "respects").

Re:"intellectual" property

[LiquidCoooled]

I expected it to say,

Microsoft stands behind its products and lobs chairs over the barracades.'

Re:WOW

[SysSupport]

Does any one else notice that these kind of posts increase whenever junior highschool is on a vacation?

Re:Visto and NTP

[Queuetue]

NTP is the company who has become famous (or infamous) from their suit against RIM.

Ah! Thanks for explaining that.

Who is RIM?

zero-sum?

[pr0nbot]

I hope somewhere a bean counter is totting up two columns: "Revenues from patent litigation" and "Losses from patent litigation". Hopefully this will be roughly a zero-sum and will make people realise that everyone except patent lawyers loses from patent litigation.

Microsoft shut down ASF/WMV support in VirtualDub

[tepples]

Microsoft have lost millions in patent fights, and have never ever used them to attack open source software.

O rly? [advogato.org]

Steve Ballmer

[zaguar]

Meanwhile, in Redmond, a sound can be heard from the CEO office, along with the sounds of chairs crashing.

"I'm going to Fucking BURY Visto Corporation! I've done it before, and I will do it again. I am going to FUCKING KILL Visto Corporation!"

Hasn't this biz plan ...

[MrCopilot]

Hasn't this biz plan already been pateneted by EOLAS?

Do they know about this?

On aside note, its Good to see lawyers have work during this Holiday season. I always worry about them during the cold months.

Yes Im a hippocrite

[xmorg]

Yes Im a hypocrite !
Hurray for the US Patent office!

Text of the patent...

[Scratch-O-Matic]

"A system or method of bringing a computer to its knees after an authorized user attempts to execute factory-installed software. Following lock-up, the user is presented with a blue screen which may contain meaningless technical jargon.

This patent includes a system in which, following lock-up, the user is presented with an animated hour glass.

This patent includes a system in which, following lock-up, the user is presented with a mouse pointer that won't move.

This patent includes a system in which, following lock-up, the user is presented with a mouse pointer that moves but won't click.

This patent includes a system in which, following lock-up, the user is presented with a mouse pointer that moves and clicks on buttons that don't respond."

Stands by AND Respects?

[erveek]

"Microsoft stands behind its products and respects intellectual property rights."

Just not at the same time.