Microsoft prevails in Office Smart Tag patent suit
InfoWorld | at | by Mike
Microsoft has won a patent lawsuit brought against it by Hyperphrase Technologies LLC and Hyperphrase Inc. of Madison, Wisconsin. The case, due to go to trial in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin on Oct. 6, was decided by summary judgment Wednesday.
Hyperphrase had claimed that the Smart Tags function in Microsoft's Office XP desktop productivity software infringed on three of its patents, but on Wednesday Judge Barbara Crabb ruled in summary judgment that Microsoft's Smart Tags do not infringe Hyperphrase's patents because they do not operate in the same way as the inventions claimed by Hyperphrase, Microsoft spokeswoman Stacy Drake said in an e-mail.