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Back in May, Microsoft lost a high profile patent infringement case when a Texas judge found in favor of Canadian software firm i4i. The Redmond giant was ordered to pay $200 million as a royalty for infringing a 1998 i4i patent issued in 1998, U.S. Patent No. 5,787,499. The software covered by that patent removed the need for individual, manually embedded command codes to control text formatting in electronic documents, and Microsoft used… Read More

Movielink announced today that the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware has ruled that Movielink's online movie distribution service does notinfringe USA Video Technology Corporation's patent, effectively ending USA Video's patent infringement case against Movielink before the District Court. The Court's order granting Movielink's motion for summary judgment on the grounds of non-infringement was… Read More