Law360, New York (March 13, 2008, 12:00 AM EDT) -- A federal judge ruled Tuesday that a Microsoft Corp. patent on a method for replicating data files is invalid, handing a victory to a Symantec Corp. subsidiary in its ongoing dispute with Microsoft over patents and trade secrets.
The patent in issue describes a “replication facility provides for the replication of files or portions of files in a distributed environment.” Microsoft asserted the patent against Symantec subsidiary Veritas Inc. after Veritas sued the software giant in 2006, alleging infringement of one of its patents on data...
Veritas Gets Microsoft Patent Invalidated
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