Microsoft has successfully fended off a lawsuit over a set of controversial voice digitisation patents, in a case that could have roiled the computer and Internet telephony industries if the patents had been upheld as valid.
Symantec has launched a suit charging Microsoft with misappropriating its intellectual property and with violating a licence related to data storage technology.
Software developers are angry that Microsoft has been granted a patent for the conversion of objects into XML files.
The US Supreme Court will not hear Microsoft's appeal in a lawsuit that has resulted in a preliminary jury verdict of more than US$500 million for alleged patent infringement in Internet Explorer.
Not only have fears of a patent crisis been greatly exaggerated, but the US patent system is functioning quite well, Microsoft's former chief technologist said on Tuesday.
The software giant's recent XML-related patent applications highlight the struggle between open and proprietary.
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