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Microsoft Azure Wins Patent Lawsuit

Thursday, August 5th, 2010

Microsoft and Salesforce.com have agreed to settle their patent suits against each other. The two cloud hosting giants can move on, get along, and enter into a license sharing agreement for the competing cloud technologies.

A Microsoft press release states “The cases have been settled through a patent agreement in which Salesforce.com will receive broad coverage under Microsoft’s patent portfolio for its products and services as well as its back-end server infrastructure during the term. Also as part of the agreement, Microsoft receives coverage under Salesforce.com’s patent portfolio for Microsoft’s products and services.”

Horacio Gutierrez, corporate vice president and deputy general counsel of Intellectual Property and Licensing at Microsoft declared “Microsoft’s patent portfolio is the strongest in the software industry and is the result of decades of software innovation. Today’s agreement is an example of how companies can compete vigorously in the marketplace while respecting each other’s intellectual property rights.”

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