Two Patent Infringement Suits Filed Against Microsoft by Aloft Media.
Defendant: Microsoft Corp.
Plaintiff: Aloft Media LLC
Jurisdiction: US District Court, Eastern District of Texas
Result: New Filing
Source: The Southeast Texas Record, www.setexasrecord.com, February 27, 2008
Aloft Media, LLC of Longview, Texas filed two patent infringement suits against Microsoft in the Eastern District of Texas related to two computer software products. One suit alleges infringement of US Patent Number 7,305,625 entitled “Data Networking System and Method for Interfacing a User.” The other suit seeks damages for patent infringement under US Patent Number 6,901,393 entitled “System, Method and Computer Program Product for a Customer-Centric Collaborative Protocol.” It is alleged that the ‘625 patent relates to Microsoft’s MSN Explorer and Microsoft Windows Live, and that the ‘393 patent relates to the Microsoft Dynamics product .



