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Salesforce countersues Microsoft
THE CLOUD-BASED customer relationship management outfit Salesforce has been rummaging around the back of its shop and found several patents that it thinks Microsoft might be infringing, so it has filed a lawsuit.
The legal action is a counterattack to Microsoft having sued Salesforce.com last month. The Vole sued Salesforce claiming it had spotted its technology in Salesforce's software menus, toolbars and graphical interface features.
Before the Vole decided to take Salesforce to the cleaners there was no mention of these Salesforce patents, but now Salesforce claims that Microsoft's "continuing acts of infringement have caused and are causing irreparable harm to Salesforce.com."
The five Salesforce patents are apparently infringed by Microsoft's Windows Server and its .Net platform.
Microsoft deputy chief counsel Horacio Gutierrez said in a statement that the company is reviewing the countersuit. He says he is quietly confident and will be pressing the Vole's complaints against Salesforce.
No doubt there must be those in the IT industry who can remember a day when you used to compete against a rival by providing decent products rather than spending most of your time in court claiming they nicked your ideas. µ
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Amen to that.
Can't we just get rid of fucking software patents already?
Maybe Micr0$uck$ will have to simply buy their way out of yet another litigation treat. Hmm, who to give the $$$ to - the judge? I guess who ever will take it.
Hmmm... I wonder what amazing novel inventions are embodied in .NET... I am sure processes that none of us would have thought of if we were ripping off Java as well.
Seems to me patent duration should depend on risk - so risk-takers have an incentive to make great leaps. imho - Mundane improvements to mainstream products shouldn't be patentable.