Supreme Court Declines Patent Case
Published by Chronicle of Higher Education October 31st, 2005 in Wired CampusThe U.S. Supreme Court today declined to intervene in a legal dispute between the University of California system and Microsoft. Microsoft had petitioned the court to explain how patent law affects software code on the hard drives of computers that are assembled by foreign companies. The issue is one small aspect of a larger tussle between the two parties about who invented a Web-browser technology that launches and displays applications like software plug-ins and Java applets from Web browsers.
That case is awaiting another trial in the U.S. District Court in Chicago, which in 2003 ruled that Microsoft was infringing on the university’s patent and ordered the company to pay the university $521-million. The judgment was later suspended by a federal appeals court. For more on the case, see an article in The Chronicle by Andrea Foster.
Supreme Court Declines Patent Case
Published by Chronicle of Higher Education October 31st, 2005 in UncategorizedThe U.S. Supreme Court today declined to intervene in a legal dispute between the University of California system and Microsoft. Microsoft had petitioned the court to explain how patent law affects software code on the hard drives of computers that are assembled by foreign companies. The issue is one small aspect of a larger tussle between the two parties about who invented a Web-browser technology that launches and displays applications like software plug-ins and Java applets from Web browsers.
That case is awaiting another trial in the U.S. District Court in Chicago, which in 2003 ruled that Microsoft was infringing on the university’s patent and ordered the company to pay the university $521-million. The judgment was later suspended by a federal appeals court. For more on the case, see an article in The Chronicle by Andrea Foster.
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