"Microsoft" tagged Cases and Lawsuits

CaseCase FiledLast Document
Performance Pricing, Inc. v. Google Inc. et alSeptember 27, 2007May 15, 2008
Plaintiff Performance Pricing, Inc. sued Google Inc., AOL LLC, Microsoft Corporation and Yahoo! Inc. for infringing U.S. Patent No. 6,978,253 entitled "Systems and Methods for Transacting Business Over a Global Communications Network such as the Internet."
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA et al v. MICROSOFT CORPORATIONMay 18, 1998May 15, 2008
Terraserver.com, Inc. v. Microsoft Corporation, a Washington corporation et alMay 2, 2008May 2, 2008
Aloft Media LLC v. Microsoft CorporationFebruary 22, 2008April 21, 2008
Plaintiff Aloft Media LLC alleges that Defendant Microsoft Corp. infringed on U.S. Patent No. 6,901,393 entitled "System, Method and Computer Program Product for a Customer-Centric Collaborative Protocol."
Microsoft Corporation v. Dauben IncJanuary 22, 2008April 10, 2008
Plaintiff Microsoft Corporation alleges that Defendant Dauben, Inc. d/b/a Texas International Property Associates infringed on Microsoft's trade and service marks by registering Internet domain names that are identical or confusingly similar to Microsoft's trademarks and service marks.
Perfect 10, Inc v. Microsoft, Inc et alAugust 8, 2007March 25, 2008
Adult publisher alleges that Microsoft's MSN search engine makes thumbnail images available in search results that infringe publisher's copyrights. Related suits against Google and Amazon for similar claims.
Aloft Media LLC v. Microsoft CorporationFebruary 22, 2008February 22, 2008
Plaintiff Aloft Media, LLC alleged that Defendant Microsoft Corporation infringed on U.S. Patent No. 7,305,625 entitled "Data Networking System and Method for Interfacing a User."
Bid for Position, LLC v. AOL, LLC et alDecember 13, 2007February 12, 2008
Plaintiff Bid for Position, LLC alleges that Defendants AOL, LLC, Google, Inc., Microsoft Corporation and MIVA, INc. infringed on Patent No. 7,225,151 entitled "Online Auction Bid Management System and Method."
David Grisman et al v. UMG Recordings Inc et alMay 3, 2007February 8, 2008
Plaintiff David Grisman d/b/a Dawg Music and Rodney Franklin d/b/a Maicaboom Music allege that Defendant Warner Music Group Corp., Rhino Entertainment Company, Ryko Corporation, Instinct Records, Apple Computer, Inc., Microsoft Corporation, AOL Music Now, LLC, Yahoo!, Inc., RealNetworks Digital Music of California, Inc. infringed on Plaintiff's copyrighted work "The Groove."
Zhang v. Boeing Company et alNovember 5, 2007January 23, 2008
Plaintiff Liaosheng Zhang alleges that Defendants Boeing Company, Amazon Global Resources, Inc. and Microsoft Corporation never hired him. Plaintiff contends that Defendants prefers to hire H1B foreign workers who are much younger and present less medical liabilities to the companies, even though Plaintiff is a qualified U.S. worker.
AutoText Technologies, Inc. v. Apple, inc. et alNovember 9, 2007January 9, 2008
Plaintiff AutoText Technologies, Inc. alleges Defendants infringed on U.S. Patent No. 5,305,205 entitled "Computer-Assisted Transcription Apparatus."
Grisoft v. Microsoft Corporation et alDecember 14, 2007December 14, 2007
Grisoft, s.r.o. seeks the identity of the person or company that purchased sponsored advertising from Microsoft Corporation for the avg-soft.com website.
LOTTOTRON, INC. v. MICROSOFT CORPORATIONOctober 22, 2007November 26, 2007
Plaintiff Lottotron, Inc. alleged that defendant Microsoft Corporation's online poker and casino games infringed on U.S. Patent Nos. 5,921,865, 5,910,047 and 5,415,416 all entitled "Computerized Lottery Wagering System" and U.S Patent No.,5,816,919 entitled "Computer Lottery Wagering System".
Microsoft Corporation v. Kovyrin et alSeptember 10, 2007November 7, 2007
Plaintiff Microsoft Corporation alleges that defendants have registered numerous Internet domain names that contain or consist of Microsoft's marks and/or intentional misspellings of Microsoft's marks.
Daisy Mountain Fire District v. Microsoft CorporationSeptember 14, 2007November 6, 2007
Plaintiff Daisy Mountain Fire District sued defendant Microsoft Corporation on behalf of itself and similarly situated government entities, agencies and political subdivisions of the State of Arizona who have purchased Microsoft software. Plaintiff alleged that defendant violated antitrust laws by engaging in anticompetitive and monopolistic practices in the operating system software, word processing applications software, and spreadsheet applications software markets.
Garcia v. Microsoft CorporationSeptember 27, 2007October 26, 2007
Plaintiff sued defendant Microsoft Corporation for charging XBOX Live subscriptions with accompanying automatic renewals where such contracts were entered into by minor children and for charging fees for XBOX Live subscriptions with accompany automatic renewals where such multiple-year contracts with adults was not in writing as required under the Statute of Frauds.
Digital Reg of Texas, LLC v. Hustler.com et alOctober 5, 2007October 15, 2007
Plaintiff Digital Reg of Texas, LLC alleged that defendants Hustler.com (a/k/a LFP Internet Group, LLC), LFP, Inc., Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc., Playboy Enterprises, Inc., Audible, Inc., Sony Corp. of America, Sony Connect, Inc., Macrovision Corp. and Blockbuster Inc. infringed on U.S. Patent No. 6,389,541 entitled "Regulating Access to Digital Content."
PartsRiver, Inc. v. Shopzilla, Inc. et alOctober 3, 2007October 12, 2007
Plaintiff PartsRiver, Inc. alleged that defendants Shopzilla, Inc., ValueClick, Inc., Pricerunner Limited, Yahoo! Inc., PriceGrabber.com, Inc., eBay, Inc. and Microsoft Corporation infringed U.S. Patent No. 6,275,821 entitled "Method and System for Executing a Guided Parametric Search."
Anascape, Ltd v. Microsoft Corp. et alJuly 31, 2006October 12, 2007
Plaintiff Anascape, Ltd. sued defendants Microsoft Corp. and Nintendo of America, Inc., and alleged that defendants infringed on various patents related to video game consoles and video game controllers.
Ling v. Microsoft CorporationAugust 14, 2007October 10, 2007
Plaintiff filed a class action suit against Microsoft Corp. and alleged that the Microsoft Xbox 360 video game system frequently scratches CD-ROM and DVD-ROM discs, rendering them unusable by the consumer.
Langdon v. Google Inc. et alMay 17, 2006June 1, 2007
Plaintiff Christopher Langdon complains that defendants Google, Inc., Yahoo! Inc. and Microsoft Corp. declined to accept advertising from plaintiff for his websites www.ncjusticefraud.com and www.chinaisevil.com.
Microsoft Corporation v. Ronald Alepin Morrison & Foerster et alMarch 3, 2006May 1, 2006
Microsoft Corporation sought an authorization to serve subpoenas to International Business Machines Corporation, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP and Maurits Dolmans regarding communications or correspondence between the parties and the European Commission relating to interoperability information.
Google, Inc. et al v. Microsoft CorporationJuly 29, 2005December 27, 2005
Plaintiffs Google Inc. and Kai-Fu Lee sought judicial relief from a non-compete provision drafted by Dr. Lee's former employer, Microsoft Corporation.
Compression Labs, Inc. v. Microsoft CorporationApril 21, 2005June 29, 2005
Fullview, Inc. v. Microsoft CorporationApril 29, 2008 
Alston v. Microsoft Corporation et alApril 11, 2008 
Pitchware, Inc. v. Monster Worldwide, Inc. et alApril 7, 2008 
Broquet et al v. Microsoft Corporation et alMarch 26, 2008 
Laskey v. Microsoft CorporationMarch 17, 2008 
z4 Technologies, Inc v. Microsoft CorporationNovember 29, 2007 
Joel Geddis v. Microsoft Corporation et alNovember 28, 2007 
Nunez v. Microsoft Corporation et alNovember 20, 2007 
Cambridge Technology Development, Inc. v. Microsoft CorporationNovember 16, 2007 
Gates v. Starbucks Corporation et alJuly 9, 2007 
Kelley v. Microsoft CorporationMarch 29, 2007 
STATE OF NEW YORK et al v. MICROSOFT CORPORATIONMay 18, 1998 
Hochstein et al v. Microsoft Corporation et alJanuary 23, 2008 
Plaintiff Peter A. Hochstein, Jeffrey Tenenbaum and Harold W. Milton, Jr. allege that Defendants Microsoft Corp. and Sony Computer Entertainment America, Inc. infringed on U.S. Patent No. 5,292,125 entitled "Apparatus and Method for Electronically Connecting Remotely Located Video Games."