How Apple and Microsoft Armed 4,000 Patent Warheads
How Apple and Microsoft Armed 4,000 Patent Warheads
Posted: 22 May 2012
He’s one of 10 reverse-engineers working full time for a stealthy company funded by some of the biggest names in technology: Apple, Microsoft, Research In Motion, Sony, and Ericsson. Called the Rockstar Consortium, the 32-person outfit has a single-minded mission: It examines successful products, like routers and smartphones, and it tries to find proof that these products infringe on a portfolio of over 4,000 technology patents once owned by one of the world’s largest telecommunications companies.
Court: Microsoft violated patent; can't sell Word - Yahoo! News
Wow. They can't even sell it while they work on changes.
Between the U.S. courts and the EU, MS can only win in the court of public opinion!
Discuss!
EDIT: MS says no worries; they will have it available in January: