Microsoft pursues cross-licensing deals
eWeek | at | by Mike
As Microsoft pursues its goal of signing cross-licensing agreements with the approximately 40 global companies that hold the most technology patents, it is also entering into similar agreements with other smaller but strategic partners.
It is just more than a year since the Redmond, Wash., software company announced its plans to more widely license its intellectual property, and it's now engaged in several cross-licensing agreement discussions with software, hardware, digital media and telecommunications companies in the United States, Europe and Asia.