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Patents war: Top 5 patents rivalry in tech world
By Sangeeta Bora, SiliconIndia
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Wednesday, 17 August 2011, 23:10 IST |
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5. Microsoft vs. Google, Apple and Facebook
Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft, has filed a suit on december 2010 against 11 different companies, including Apple, Google, Facebook, AOL, Netflix, Yahoo, YouTube and several others claiming patent infringement and maintained that they had violated four different patents associated with web search and e-commerce. These patents are tied to both software and business methods. However a judge has dismissed Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's lawsuit against Google, Apple, Facebook and others for patent infringement. The decision further states that Allen has failed to identify the infringing products or devices with any specificity.
