Law360, New York (June 04, 2012, 6:26 PM ET) -- Oracle America Inc. launched a preemptive lawsuit against patent-licensing company Lodsys LLC on Thursday in Wisconsin federal court, seeking a declaratory judgment that the computing giant's online sales services didn't infringe the litigious Lodsys' oft-asserted data sharing patents.
Oracle claims Lodsys had sent threatening letters to many of the companies for which Oracle provides online customer support services such as Live Help Chat On-Demand, demanding that they license technology that they had already purchased from Oracle. Some of the customers have demanded that Oracle defend them,...
Oracle Slams Lodsys For Threatening Software Clients Over IP
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