Monday, 23 April 2007

Microsoft Hit with Patent Suit over .Net

Vertical Computer Systems has slapped Microsoft with a lawsuit claiming the latter allegedly infringed patents regarding Microsoft's .Net framework for building Windows-based software.

Vertical has said that Microsoft has breached Patent No. 6,826,744, for a "system and method for generating web sites in an arbitrary object framework."

This particular patent is to use Extensible Markup Language (XML) to create a component-based structure to build web sites.

The suit also accuses Microsoft of intentionally violating the patents even after being notified by Vertical on February 2007.