Patent Law

Big Gorilla Cuts A Dud

By Gary Odom and Jordan Kuhn

In an ongoing tussle in various venues, Microsoft had accused patent bad-boy Alcatel-Lucent before the ITC of infringing four patents claiming telephone/computer integration. In the first round, the ITC administrative law judge found one infringed. Today, the full commission peeled the last banana, finding non-infringement. So much for due diligence by Microsoft, member of the Coalition of Patent Fairness, a mega-corporation lobbyist that rails about asserting junk patents.

Full post as published by The Patent Prospector on May 20, 2008 (boomark / email).