MICROSOFT VS GOOGLE, APPLE AND FACEBOOK

Paul Allen the co-founder of Microsoft, has filed a suit on December 2010 against 11 different companies, including  apple,google,facebook,aol,netfix,yahoo,youtube and several other s claiming patent infringement and maintained that they had violated four different patents associated with web search and e-commerce. These patents are tied to both software and business methods. The four patents cover several technologies related to search, multimedia, database, and screen activity. However a judgea has dismissed Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s lawsuit against google, apple, facebook and others for patent infringement.