Microsoft countersues Lucent regarding Xbox technology

This week Microsoft filed a counter suit against Lucent for patent invalidity of Lucent's patent covering technology allegedly used in Microsoft's Xbox.

Microsoft hired the patent litigation law form Fish and Richardson, arguably the best patent litigation law firm in the USA, to represent them. The litigation is taking place in San Diego.

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Link to Fish and Richardson:

http://www.fr.com/news/articledetail.cfm?articleid=534

Link to Xbox sites:

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/

http://www.microsoft.com/xbox/

Link to the patent

http://patft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=5,227,878.PN.&OS=PN/5,227,878&RS=PN/5,227,878

Link to the San Diego court house:

http://www.casd.uscourts.gov/

(Monitor Judge M. James Lorenz  Calendar if you want to attend one of the scores of hearings to take place over the next couple of years.)

Link to related articles:

http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/04/04/lucent/index.php

http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/04/04/77119_HNlucentsuesms_1.html