{"id":548861,"date":"2006-05-19T11:28:59","date_gmt":"2006-05-19T11:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/548861-microsoft-faces-lawsuit.html"},"modified":"2006-05-19T11:28:59","modified_gmt":"2006-05-19T11:28:59","slug":"microsoft-faces-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/548861-microsoft-faces-lawsuit.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft faces lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">A complaint filed by Symantec in federal court in the state of Washington, where Microsoft has its headquarters, charged that Microsoft misappropriated data storage software for use in technology such as its new Vista operating system. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&quot;Over the course of nearly a decade, Microsoft has deliberately and surreptitiously misappropriated Symantec&#8217;s valuable storage technologies, misled and thereby convinced the US government to issue patents to Microsoft based on technologies invented by Symantec,&quot; the complaint charged. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Microsoft countered that the suit stemmed from &quot;a very narrow disagreement&quot; regarding the terms of a 1996 licensing deal Microsoft had with software security firm Veritas, which Symantec acquired last year. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&quot;We worked hard to resolve these issues with Symantec,&quot; Microsoft said in a written statement. &quot;We believe the facts will show that Microsoft&#8217;s actions were proper.&quot; <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Microsoft contended it licensed the &quot;volume management technology&quot; from Veritas in 1996 and exercised an option to buy the\u00a0 software code and intellectual property rights in 2004. Symantec charged in its complaint that Microsoft overstepped the\u00a0 bounds of the licensing deal and broke the terms of the contract by\u00a0 not giving Symantec access to Microsoft source codes as required. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Symantec&#8217;s suit asked a federal judge to order Microsoft to stop\u00a0 using Symantec&#8217;s Volume Manager technology and pay &quot;proper compensation&quot;. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&quot;Symantec would have preferred to have resolved this issue through negotiations and pursued that effort for close to a year,&quot; the company said in a written statement. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&quot;However, we were unable to resolve our differences and found it\u00a0 necessary to take this step to protect our intellectual property.&quot; <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Symantec is based in Cupertino, California. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><i>INet-Bridge<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US anti-virus company Symantec accused computer-industry Goliath Microsoft of misusing its technology in a lawsuit filed on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548861"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}