Microsoft, InterTrust settle patent suit
crn.com | at | by Mike
There must be something in the air.
Microsoft and InterTrust said Monday they have settled all outstanding patent litigation between the two companies. Microsoft will pay InterTrust a one-time payment of $440 million, Microsoft said early Monday. At issue in the three-year-old suit was how software manages the use and security of digital music and video.
The original complaint, filed in April 2001 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, alleged Microsoft products, including Windows and the Windows Media Player, violated InterTrust patents. That suit was expanded in June of that year when InterTrust was awarded a new patent.