Microsoft Prevails in Software Patent Dispute with ATT

  Microsoft prevailed in its defense of a patent infringement claim by AT&T related to copies of the Windows operating system sold overseas. The matter is Microsoft Corp. v. AT&T Corp., No. 05–1056. The technology at issue was codecs, which is software used to compress speech signals into data, in copies of Windows shipped and sold overseas. AT&T claimed that the codec infringed on its registered Read More