TomTom, Microsoft settle disputes
section: microsoft, for your questions: KezNews forum, 30.3.2009
Tip: Click here to update all your PC's outdated driversMicrosoft and TomTom have settled the patent-infringement suits (and countersuits) between the two vendors, Microsoft announced March 30.
Microsoft is not paing TomTom, but TomTom is paying Microsoft an undisclosed amount as part of the deal.
Here is Microsoft’s official statement:
“The cases have been settled through a patent agreement under which TomTom will pay Microsoft for coverage under the eight car navigation and file management systems patents in the Microsoft case. Also as part of the agreement, Microsoft receives coverage under the four patents included in the TomTom countersuit. The agreement, which has a five-year term, does not require any payment by Microsoft to TomTom. It covers both past and future U.S. sales of the relevant products. The specific financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.”
There has been much speculation that TomTom was unwilling to license at least four of Microsoft’s patents because of incompatibility of those licenses with GNU General Public License terms. But TomTom officials have declined to discuss the case publicly in any way over the past month, so no one knew for sure.
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