Monday, November 20, 2006

Alcatel Files Patent Infringement Suit against Microsoft

Alcatel USA has filed two complaints against Microsoft with the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas alleging violation of its intellectual property rights. The dispute involves six patents, one of which concerns Deterministic User Authentication on a network and another of which concerns peer-to-peer application communication. According to the filing, Alcatel provided Microsoft with notice of infringement before filing its legal claim.
http://www.alcatel.comhttp://www.txed.uscourts.gov/

  • Alcatel and Microsoft have been partners in developing IPTV solutions since February 2005.