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VirnetX sued Microsoft in 2007, claiming the company was using its VPN patents without paying for their use. Infringing products included Windows XP, Vista and Server 2003, as well as Microsoft's Live Communications Server, Windows Messenger, Office Communicator and various versions of Office. After winning a first round in that case, VirnetX filed an additional suit, claiming Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 also infringed on its networking patents.
As part of the settlement, Microsoft will obtain a license to use VirnetX technology in its products. Interestingly, the law firm representing VirnetX was the same that represented i4i in a patent infringement case which netted them a $200 million verdict against Microsoft and an injunction on sales of their Office products. Judge Leonard Davis, the same judge who presided over the i4i case, was the judge overseeing the VirnetX case as well.
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It sounds like a pack of thieves (i4i Lawyers, Judge) that seem to be able to extract money from the big guy (Microsoft). I wonder if there is something they are not telling us?
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Big companies like Microsoft need to be reminded that They live in a country where patents are worse than Breaking and Entering, Grand Theft Auto and Rape. Unfortunately its ridiculously hard to prove you are innocent in a patent case. There is information Missing, But Microsoft Deserved it if they lost. IF you're a giant you cannot be gentle, Take Apple for instance, Seems like they're Suing Everyone For Patent's.
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Whatever happened to the injunction preventing them from selling Office 2007? I guess microsoft just ignored the court.
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