Surfcast Sues Microsoft Over Tile Patent

Posted by Unknown on Wednesday October 31, 2012 @04:32AM from the smells-like-windows-1.0 dept.

An anonymous reader writes with news of a company suing Microsoft for infringing upon a patent for tiles with live content. From the article: "SurfCast, in a complaint filed yesterday in a U.S. District Court in Maine, said Microsoft infringes one of its four patents — No. 6,724,403 — by 'making, using, selling, and offering to sell devices and software products' covered by SurfCast's patent. That includes mobile devices using the Windows Phone 7 and Windows Phone 8 operating systems as well as PCs using Windows 8/RT."

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Not a troll by gameboyhippo · 2012-10-31 04:37 · Score: 0, Troll

After reading the article, I really think that SurfCast is right in suing Microsoft. It seems to be the same thing and it's a novel way of doing things.
Re:Patent Law? by Dog-Cow · 2012-10-31 04:46 · Score: 0, Troll

If the patent is valid and not expired, it can be enforced. It does not matter when you become aware of the violation, nor how much time has elapsed between awareness and filing of a suit.