Microsoft to defend cloud-computing customers from patent trolls
Microsoft is expanding a program to defend customers of its cloud-computing services from patent infringement lawsuits filed by patent trolls and other companies. Cloud-computing is the fast growing business of selling on-demand computing power and data storage, which become increasingly a target of patent trolls. Microsoft decided to expand its indemnification policy following cases in which financial institutions asked Microsoft for help defending against patent lawsuits related to work on Azure.
Read, who are patent trolls!
Back