경민수: Salesforce.com, Microsoft, David Boies

Friday, August 06, 2010

Salesforce.com, Microsoft, David Boies

Microsoft settled it patent infringement case with Salesforce.com (Aug. 4)
(see details here at ZDNet)

Microsoft complaint included Salesforce's alleged infringements of:

“method and system for mapping between logical data and physical data”
“system and method for providing and displaying a web page having an embedded menu”
“method and system for stacking toolbars in a computer display”
“automated web site creation using template driven generation of active server page applications”
“aggregation of system settings into objects”
“timing and velocity control for displaying graphical information”
“method and system for identifying and obtaining computer software from a remote computer”
“system and method for controlling access to data entities in a computer network”

Note 1: These are all method patents.

Note 2: David Boies represented Salesforce. He represented the Justice Department in the Microsoft antitrust case. He also represented Al Gore in Bush v. Gore.

Note 3: Salesforce complaint can be read here. (I like Scribd.)