Summary: The 'new' Microsoft boils down to the patent equivalent of the copyright case of SCO (funded by Microsoft)

THE two-faced Microsoft told us that it had reached a "truce" on patents, but its trolls appear to have not gotten this memo or perhaps they were given another memo altogether. What Microsoft says in private and in public differs wildly.

"...Microsoft relies on such trolls to help sell “Azure IP Advantage”, i.e. "rents" or "patent royalties" or "protection money" (disguised as hosting plan)."A few days ago it was made apparent that Intellectual Ventures, a Microsoft patent troll, is still using the biased juries in Texas (trolls-friendly by their own admission) to extort the entire industry. There's a lot of money at stake:

T-Mobile should pay $34 million and Ericsson Inc. should pay $9 million for infringing at least one of the wireless transmission patents held by Intellectual Ventures I LLC...

We have meanwhile also noticed that Southpaw Asset Management, an investment firm, is divesting from the Microsoft-funded patent troll Finjan; nevertheless, this troll continues to file additional lawsuits against Microsoft's competitors. As we've explained many times before, Microsoft relies on such trolls to help sell “Azure IP Advantage” [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18], i.e. "rents" or "patent royalties" or "protection money" (disguised as hosting plan). ⬆