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August 01, 2006, 01:42 PM ET
A Second Chance for Microsoft
The longstanding dispute between Microsoft and the University of California over who holds the patent on Web-browser technology (The Chronicle, October 14, 2005) continues to wind its way through the courts, reports Patently-O.
Microsoft will get a chance to persuade another judge with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois that the company and not the university holds the patent to the lucrative technology.
Last year the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit sent the case back to the district court to reconsider its $521-million judgment in 2003 against Microsoft for patent infringement.
Microsoft wanted a new judge to hear the case, a request that the district court denied. But the appeals court overruled that decision, allowing a new judge in Illinois to take up the case. —Andrea L. Foster
Categories: Legal-Troubles
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