TomTom backs down from Microsoft litigation
06 April 2009
Eileen McDermott, New York
TomTom last week agreed to settle with Microsoft on both patent infringement suits pending between the two companies
Last month, Microsoft filed complaints against TomTom in the US District Court for the Western District of Washington and at the International Trade Commission, marking the first time the company has alleged patent infringement related to the open source operating system Linux.
Microsoft claimed that TomTom products infringed eight of Microsoft's patents related to global positioning system (GPS) technology.
TomTom fired back soon after with its own complaint in the Eastern District of...
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