Bangalore: Microsoft has been slapped with the law suit over the most distinctive feature on its new OS releases, Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8.

SurfCast, a technology company based in Portland, Main, claims that Microsoft’s Live Tiles, which are cloud connected, and get automatically updated with new data, violets its patent.

SurfCast filed the lawsuit against the software giant in the U.S. District Court of Maine on last week as reported by Next Web, and is asking Microsoft to pay an undisclosed amount in damages and attorneys’ fees.

The suing company is into design of operating-system and has applied for four more patents as per the company’s website.       

“The tiles are dynamically updating icons” as SurfCast stated, different from standard operating system icons, because they are “selectable and live, containing refreshed content providing real-time or near-real-time view of underlying information.”

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The patent as SurfCast claims is granted in 2004, and it claims to have developed the “Live Tile” technology in 1990s—“System and method for simultaneous display of multiple information sources.” The company in turn refers Microsoft’s patent—“Tile space user interface for mobile devices," which the software giant received in 2011.

Microsoft in a statement said that, it is “confident” and would prove in court that SurfCast’s claims to be baseless and “unique user experience” in the newly released Windows OS of being created by the company itself.

However some industry analysts and lawyers following the process raised the possibility that the law suit filed to be case of “patent troll”.

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