ROM-DOS Posted May 19, 2006 CID Share Posted May 19, 2006 Symantec sues Microsoft over trade secrets By Benjamin J. Romano ~ Seattle Times technology reporter Symantec filed a lawsuit in Seattle today alleging Microsoft committed a host of business misdeeds, including misappropriating trade secrets and violating a contract that covered code used in part of the coming Windows Vista operating system. The suit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, relates to a contract between Microsoft and Veritas, which merged into Symantec last year, dating to 1996. Symantec alleges that "Microsoft has deliberately and surreptitiously misappropriated Symantec's valuable data-storage technologies, misled and thereby convinced the United States government to issue patents to Microsoft based on technologies invented by Symantec, attempted unsuccessfully to persuade Symantec to forgive Microsoft' s misdeeds under the guise of expanding a business relationship, and ultimately built portions of its next generation operating system on this house of cards." Microsoft said in a statement that the suit "stems from a very narrow disagreement" over terms of a contract with Veritas to license volume management technology, which allows operating systems to handle large amounts of data. "We worked hard to try to resolve these issues with Symantec, but were not able to reach an agreement. We believe the facts will show that Microsoft's actions were proper and are fully consistent with the contract between Veritas and Microsoft," Microsoft said. "These claims are unfounded because Microsoft actually purchased intellectual property rights for all relevant technologies from Veritas in 2004," the company said. Copyright Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richcornucopia Posted May 19, 2006 CID Share Posted May 19, 2006 I read about this earlier. I think Microsoft has enough money to get out of any lawsuit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted May 19, 2006 CID Share Posted May 19, 2006 I read about this earlier. I think Microsoft has enough money to get out of any lawsuit. of couse they have enough money, they are microsoft they can buy there way out of anything Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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