In March 2011, Microsoft filed a complaint with the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) against Barnes & Noble for patent infringement alleging that Barnes & Noble’s Android-based Nook portable devices violated three Microsoft patents. This complaint is just one of many complaints issued by Microsoft against Android software users. Many Android software vendors, including [...]

Bookstore Barnes & Noble has asked the Department of Justice to investigate Microsoft’s patents related to tablets and smartphones, claiming that the software giant is stifling competition in the mobile device market by “raising rivals’ costs in order to drive out competition and to deter innovation in mobile devices.”  The plea for an investigation comes [...]

Well here’s hoping that Windows 8, the latest operating system from Microsoft Corp., can be at least relevant in this Apple-crazed era.

IGN has reported that Electronic Arts (EA) has prevented Microsoft from including any Porsches in its upcoming racing game Forza Motorsport 4.  EA owns the rights to depictions of Porsches in video games and is refusing to license the images to Microsoft.  Forza’s Creative Director Dan Greenawalt, explained that the “Porsche license has been available [...]

The United States Supreme Court (the “Court”) has noted that from their inception, patent laws have “embodied a careful balance between the need to promote innovation and the recognition that imitation and refinement through imitation are both necessary to invention itself and the very lifeblood of a competitive economy.”[1] On June 9, 2011, the Court [...]