Israel’s Technion Files Patent Infringement Suit Against Microsoft

PETACH TIKVA — The Technion Institute of Technology filed a NIS25 million (US$6.4m) patent infringement lawsuit against Microsoft Corporation on June 6, claiming that Microsoft is illegally using online software developed by a Technion professor (Technion Research and Development Foundation v. Microsoft and Microsoft Israel, case no. 9360-06-12).

The suit, filed in the Petach Tikva Central District Court by the Technion Research and Development Foundation (“TRDF”), contends that the intellectual property rights to algorithms, commercial secrets, research results and a variety of software developed by Technion Professor Rann Smorodinsky in collaboration with YaData Ltd were not transferrable when ...