02/21: First Time in U.S. Supreme Court for Microsoft
Posted by Patrick
From Todd Bishop:
Given Microsoft's legal history, this may be difficult to fathom, but the company hasn't appeared before the U.S. Supreme Court prior to today's oral arguments in a patent dispute with AT&T. At issue is whether Microsoft should be required to pay U.S. patent royalties to AT&T on copies of Windows installed and sold outside the United States. Microsoft has agreed to pay the royalty for a speech-compression technology on Windows copies in the U.S., but it doesn't believe it should have to pay the same royalty for those outside the country.
