Microsoft Doesn’t Infringe Internet Translation Patents (1)

Microsoft Corp. didn’t infringe two patents related to internet translation services, the District of Delaware said May 29.

But Microsoft couldn’t “drive a stake through the heart” of the patents by invalidating them after it had already won on summary judgment, the court said.

Improved Search LLC sued Microsoft for infringing U.S. Patent Nos. 6,604,101 and 7,516,154. The ‘101 patent covers methods for translating internet searches to different languages, and the ‘154 patent covers providing cross-language internet ad services.

The judge adopted Microsoft’s proposed claim construction for the patent term “dialectal standardization.” Improved Search moved to dismiss, conceding it couldn’t ...