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25 October 2016Patents

Microsoft sued over Windows Phone software

US-based company Mira Advanced Technology Systems has filed a complaint against Microsoft for allegedly infringing a patent centring on mobile software.

The case, which was filed yesterday, October 24, in the US District Court for the Northern District of Virginia, arose after Microsoft allegedly started using a software system covered by the patent in its Windows Phone products.

The patent involved in the dispute, US number 8,848,892, is titled “Contact list with conversation point reminder” and was issued in September 2014.

It covers a method “performed by a communication device for reminding a user of the communication device of a conversation point for a future phone call”, among other things.

Microsoft allegedly licenses and sells Windows Phone software which includes contact lists with functionality relating to conversation points, and therefore infringes the patent.

Mira has asked the court to consider all gains, profits and advantages derived from Microsoft’s alleged acts of infringement.

The company has also demanded a jury trial.

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