Microsoft Sues to Block Cloud-Storage Patent-Infringement Case

Microsoft filed a lawsuit asking a Delaware court to declare its OneDrive software doesn’t infringe 11 SynKloud patents related to cloud storage.

• Microsoft wants a court ruling that its OneDrive cloud storage software doesn’t infringe the patents, according to complaint filed Friday in federal court in Wilmington, Delaware
• SynKloud “has launched a litigation campaign based on” the patents, including lawsuits against Microsoft competitors in the cloud storage industry, complaint says
• Microsoft cites a patent-infringement suit SynKloud filed in November against HP over inclusion of OneDrive in some of its products
• SynKloud has asserted one or more of the patents in ...