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Friday, March 20. 2009

TomTom Countersues Microsoft

Two week ago we learned that Microsoft was suing TomTom over allegations the satnav company infringed on eight patents, some related to mapping, some related to basic operating system functions. Today TomTom has countersued. TomTom filed a patent infringement action in the Eastern District of Virginia on March 16th. That suit claims that Microsoft's Streets and Trips infringes on four TomTom patents related to vehicle navigation.

- Wall Street Journal
- C|net

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Microsoft, Patents, Satellite Navigation at 10:23 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0) | Bookmark and Share

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It truely is sad that the whole concept of patents has be bastardised into the exact opposite of what it was intended to be, greed delivers another step backwards.
#1 Anonymous on 2009-03-23 17:33 (Reply)

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