Software patent campaigners have reacted with surprise to an apparent change in the European Commission's stance on those patents.
Lucent Technologies has filed a patent infringement suit against Microsoft over the same MPEG-2 decoding technology at the centre of a 2003 legal dispute.
Symantec has launched a suit charging Microsoft with misappropriating its intellectual property and with violating a licence related to data storage technology.
Microsoft has begun e-mailing its corporate customers worldwide, letting them know that they may need to start using a different version of Office as a result of a recent legal setback.
Mobile e-mail developer Visto said on Thursday that it has sued technology giant Microsoft for infringing on several of its patents.
Free Software Foundation President Richard Stallman says Microsoft's chairman is blurring the issue of software patents.
The software giant's recent XML-related patent applications highlight the struggle between open and proprietary.
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