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Monday, March 30. 2009

TomTom and Microsoft Settle Patent Suits (for five years anyway)

Recall Microsoft sued TomTom, then TomTom countersued Microsoft.

Now, C|net reports they've settled into a five year agreement. TomTom will pay Microsoft some money to use the eight patents cited in that suit, but Microsoft will pay nothing to use TomTom's. TomTom will removes some code (file management) over the next two years.

More at Reuters.

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Microsoft, Patents at 11:55 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) | Bookmark and Share

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