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Salesforce counter-sues Microsoft for patent infringement |
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Salesforce has counter sued Microsoft for alleged violations of its patents in its .Net platform and SharePoint collaboration software. Salesforce has hired lawyer David Boies to make its case – Boies argued successfully on behalf of the US Department of Justice in the antitrust case against Microsoft during the previous decade.  Salesforce alleges that a number of Microsoft's products and technologies infringe on its patents, including Windows Server App Fabric, Windows Error Reporting as incorporated in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, SharePoint and the .Net platform, specifically ASP.Net Web services. In its complaint, Salesforce claimed that the risk of infringement was “either known or so obvious that it should have been known by Microsoft.” Last month, Microsoft had sued Salesforce.com’s customer-relationship management software, seeking a court order to prevent the latter from providing features that it claims to have invented. Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff had termed Microsoft a “patent troll” and “alley thug” in a May 20 earnings call, reports said. Reports also quoted Microsoft's Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, Intellectual Property & Licensing, Horacio Gutierrez as saying that the company was reviewing Salesforce.com's firling, and remained confident about its position. He also said that Microsoft would “continue to press ahead with the complaint we initiated in the US District Court for the Western District of Washington.” |
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