| Case | Case Filed | Last Document |
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| Performance Pricing, Inc. v. Google Inc. et al | September 27, 2007 | November 18, 2009 |
| 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 CORPORATION | May 18, 1998 | November 16, 2009 |
| Microsoft Corporation v. Lam et al | June 15, 2009 | November 13, 2009 |
| Henry v. Google, Inc. et al | May 20, 2009 | November 12, 2009 |
| Xpoint Technologies Inc. v. Microsoft Corporation et al | August 21, 2009 | November 10, 2009 |
| Cygnus Systems, Inc. v. Microsoft Corporation, et al | December 23, 2008 | July 31, 2009 |
| Bid for Position, LLC v. AOL, LLC et al | December 13, 2007 | April 27, 2009 |
| 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." |
| Microsoft Corporation v. Mai et al | April 8, 2009 | April 10, 2009 |
| PARKER v. YAHOO!, INC. et al | July 13, 2007 | February 10, 2009 |
| Plaintiff Gordon Roy Parker alleged that Defendants Yahoo!, Inc. and Microsoft Corporation infringed on Plaintiff's registered works--Outfoxing the Foxes, 29 Reasons Not to Be a Nice Guy and Why Hotties Choose Losers--by copying, storing and displaying his works within its cache. |
| Microsoft Corporation v. Immersion Corporation | June 18, 2007 | October 3, 2008 |
| Plaintiff Microsoft Corporation alleged that Defendant Immersion Corporation breached its sublicense agreement with Plaintiff that required Defendant to pay specified amounts to Plaintiff if Defendant settled its lawsuit with Sony. |
| Stragent, LLC v. Nokia Inc. et al | July 29, 2008 | July 30, 2008 |
| Plaintiff Stragent, LLC alleged that Defendants Nokia, Inc., Nokia Corporation, Motorola, Inc., Palm, Inc., Research in Motion, Ltd., Research in Motion Corporation, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB, Sony Ericcson Mobile Communications (USA) Inc., American Online, Inc., AOL LLC, AT&T, Inc., Google, Inc., Microsoft Corporation and Yahoo!, Inc. infringed on U.S. Patent No. 6,665,722 entitled "Store-and-forward packet radio system and method." |
| Aloft Media LLC v. Microsoft Corporation | February 22, 2008 | July 15, 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." |
| Terraserver.com, Inc. v. Microsoft Corporation, a Washington corporation et al | May 2, 2008 | May 2, 2008 |
| Plaintiff Terraserver.com Inc. alleged that Defendant Microsoft Corporation set up a competing website and satellite imagery service that infringes on Plaintiff's registered trademarks and trade dress. |
| Microsoft Corporation v. Dauben Inc | January 22, 2008 | April 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 al | August 8, 2007 | March 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. |
| Maplewood Software Inc v. Microsoft Corporation | February 15, 2008 | March 4, 2008 |
| Plaintiff Maplewood Software, Inc. alleged that Defendant Microsoft Corporation infringed on Plaintiff's copyright in the TUPLE database. |
| Aloft Media LLC v. Microsoft Corporation | February 22, 2008 | February 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." |
| David Grisman et al v. UMG Recordings Inc et al | May 3, 2007 | February 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 al | November 5, 2007 | January 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 al | November 9, 2007 | January 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 al | December 14, 2007 | December 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 CORPORATION | October 22, 2007 | November 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 al | September 10, 2007 | November 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 Corporation | September 14, 2007 | November 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 Corporation | September 27, 2007 | October 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 al | October 5, 2007 | October 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 al | October 3, 2007 | October 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 al | July 31, 2006 | October 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 Corporation | August 14, 2007 | October 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 al | May 17, 2006 | June 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 al | March 3, 2006 | May 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 Corporation | July 29, 2005 | December 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 Corporation | April 21, 2005 | June 29, 2005 |
| Implicit Networks, Inc. v. Sybase, Inc. et al | April 3, 2009 | |
| Migliori v. Merritt | March 31, 2009 | |
| Wald v. Microsoft, Inc. et al | March 23, 2009 | |
| Backweb Technologies, Ltd v. Microsoft Corporation | March 20, 2009 | |
| Cable et al v. Microsoft Corporation | February 27, 2009 | |
| Plaintiffs claim that the Xbox 360 video game console suffered from numerous hardware defects: (1) the red ring of death renders the console inoperable; (2) the optical disk drive scratches discs when the console is titled or swiveled; and (3) Error Code 74. |
| Microsoft Corporation v. Griffin IT Media, Inc. | February 27, 2009 | |
| Plaintiff Microsoft Corporation alleged that Defendant Griffin IT Media, Inc. infringed on Plaintiff's trade and service marks by registering Internet domain names that are identical or confusingly similar to Microsoft's trademarks and service marks, and by using those domain names in bad faith to profit from Microsoft's marks.
Defendant's allegedly infringing domain names: hotmailprofile.com; teamhalo.com; x360live.com; xboxclan.com; xboxemulation.com; xboxheaven.com; xboxinsider.com; xboxmodding.com; xboxsale.com; xboxserver.com; sboxservice.com |
| Microsoft Corporation v. Instaclick, Inc. et al | February 27, 2009 | |
| Plaintiff Microsoft Corporation alleged that Defendants Instaclick, Inc. and Dan Traina infringed Microsoft's trade and service marks by registering Internet domain names that are identical or confusingly similar to Microsoft's trademarks and services marks, and by using those domain names in bad faith to profit from Microsoft's marks. |
| Microsoft Corporation v. TomTom NV et al | February 25, 2009 | |
| Odom v. Microsoft Corporation | February 25, 2009 | |
| PartsRiver, Inc. v. Shopzilla, Inc. et al | February 25, 2009 | |
| Arendi Holding Ltd. v. Microsoft Corporation et al | February 24, 2009 | |
| FREYBURGER LLC v. Microsoft Corporation | February 24, 2009 | |
| Parkis v. Microsoft Corporation | January 29, 2009 | |
| Imagineering International Incorporated v. Microsoft Corp | January 14, 2009 | |
| Xpoint Technologies Inc. v. Intel Corporaton et al | January 12, 2009 | |
| Information Protection and Authentication of Texas, LLC v. Symantec Corp. et al | December 30, 2008 | |
| Prism Technologies v. Research in Motion, Ltd. et al | December 29, 2008 | |
| Alverson v. Microsoft Corporation et al | November 13, 2008 | |
| ADC Technology Inc v. Microsoft Corporation et al | October 27, 2008 | |
| Microsoft Corporation v. DHL Express (USA) Inc | October 9, 2008 | |
| Plaintiff Microsoft Corporation its cargo was damaged during a derailment and that Defendant DHL Express (USA), Inc., who was carrying and handling the cargo, refused to pay Plaintiff\'s damages. |
| MedioStream Inc v. Microsoft Corporation | September 30, 2008 | |
| Crisswell v. Microsoft Corporation | September 10, 2008 | |
| Stragent LLC v. Microsoft Corporation et al | September 9, 2008 | |
| Rechanik v. Microsoft Corporation | August 20, 2008 | |
| Odom v. Microsoft Corporation | August 18, 2008 | |
| Plaintiff Gary Odom alleged that Defendant Microsoft Corporation infringed U.S. Patent No. 7,363,592 entitled "Tool Group Manipulations." |
| Microsoft Corporation v. Primax Electronics LTD. | July 31, 2008 | |
| Pagemelding, Inc. v. Feeva Technology, Inc. et al | July 21, 2008 | |
| Gotuit Media Corporation v. Microsoft Corporation | July 2, 2008 | |
| Microsoft Corporation v. Trellian LLC et al | May 19, 2008 | |
| Fullview, Inc. v. Microsoft Corporation | April 29, 2008 | |
| Plaintiff FullView, Inc. alleged that Defendant Microsoft Corporation infringed on U.S. Patent No. 6,700,711 entitled "Panoramic Viewing System with a Composite Field of View." |
| Alston v. Microsoft Corporation et al | April 11, 2008 | |
| Pitchware, Inc. v. Monster Worldwide, Inc. et al | April 7, 2008 | |
| Plaintiff Pitchware, Inc. alleges that Defendants have infringed on U.S. Patent No. 7,043,454 entitled "Method and Apparatus for a Cryptographically Assisted Commercial Network System Designed to Facilitate Idea Submission, Purchase and Licensing and Innovation Transfer." |
| Broquet et al v. Microsoft Corporation et al | March 26, 2008 | |
| Laskey v. Microsoft Corporation | March 17, 2008 | |
| z4 Technologies, Inc v. Microsoft Corporation | November 29, 2007 | |
| Joel Geddis v. Microsoft Corporation et al | November 28, 2007 | |
| Nunez v. Microsoft Corporation et al | November 20, 2007 | |
| Cambridge Technology Development, Inc. v. Microsoft Corporation | November 16, 2007 | |
| Carlie v. Microsoft Corporation | July 19, 2007 | |
| Gates v. Starbucks Corporation et al | July 9, 2007 | |
| Kelley v. Microsoft Corporation | March 29, 2007 | |
| i4i Limited Partnership v. Microsoft Corporation | March 8, 2007 | |
| STATE OF NEW YORK et al v. MICROSOFT CORPORATION | May 18, 1998 | |
| Hochstein et al v. Microsoft Corporation et al | January 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." |
