Microsoft is fighting Apple’s attempt to trademark the term ‘App Store’. Surely the USPTO will exercise common sense on this one.
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A California woman is suing Microsoft for the second time over the same thing. Even though her first lawsuit concerning XP downgrade fees was thrown out with nary a blink from the company’s legal team,
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Paul Allen, who co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates, has met a court demand to give more specific examples of his wide-ranging allegations of patent violation. But the suit, which names most major online companies, doesn’t appear any more convincing with the added detail.
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Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has come up against an unusual legal barrier in his attempts to sue what seems like most of the online business community: Nobody’s really sure what he’s talking about.
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The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a final appeal by Microsoft in a patent case that is set to cost it $290 million. The hearing is likely to examine the entire basis of patent law.
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Microsoft has announced it will be giving free software licenses to campaign groups in a dozen countries. It’s designed to prevent the problem of governments using alleged copyright infringements as an excuse to raid political opponents.
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Microsoft has detailed some of the work it is doing to help tackle child pornography. It includes extending an image recognition system with the aim of automatically blocking child porn results from Bing searches.
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Microsoft says it will be stepping up monitoring of local partners in its global anti-piracy efforts. It follows allegations that a crackdown in Russia was marred by both political interference and corruption.
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Google has confirmed it is being investigated by Texan officials over antitrust concerns. But, not for the first time, the company has pointed to Microsoft links to the complaints.
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Whatever your views on Windows, it’s fair to say Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen deserves major credit for helping build the home and business computing market. But in a scattergun lawsuit he’s just filed, Allen attempts to take even more credit, to a truly laughable degree.
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The European Commission (EC) is about to unveil the European Interoperability Framework guidelines.  That plan is expected to provide guidance to its 27 nations  on the best software to purchase in order to expand and update government systems. 
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Consumers need to constantly be on the guard against being sold pirated software, and firms need to be aware that Microsoft is cracking down, and is also prepared to name and shame those involved.
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For years now there’s been a familiar pattern to Microsoft and the law: a company sues Microsoft, Microsoft sues them back, and then there’s a battle of staying power while the lawyers’ meter keeps ticking. So when Microsoft recently initiated a patent suit from scratch, things just didn’t feel right.
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Click fraud has been around for as long as online advertising has, but Microsoft claims it has unearthed a new form it has dubbed ‘click laundering’. And it’s taking legal action against alleged perpetrators.
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Microsoft has agreed to pay $200 million to a company that had patents on technology used in several editions of Windows. The payment follows a previous court order for a $106 million payment which only covered XP and Vista.
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