Visto Settles Mobile Email Patent Dispute with Microsoft
Mobile email vendor, Visto says that it has entered into a settlement and license agreement with Microsoft involving cash and non-cash consideration, thus ending a two-year patent dispute between the parties. Specific terms and conditions of the agreement are confidential. Both companies will dismiss all pending legal claims.
"This settlement is yet another validation of Visto's strong and important patent portfolio," said Daniel Mendez, co-founder, executive vice president and chief technology officer of Visto Corporation. "We are pleased that Microsoft agreed to this arrangement which we believe reinforces our ownership of these crucial inventions and technology."
The case, which was scheduled to begin on March 10 in U.S. Federal Court in Marshall, Texas, centered on alleged infringement by Microsoft on three of Visto's mobile email patents. Last year, Visto settled a similar patent dispute with rival email vendor, Seven - and another court case is due to start in July against Research in Motion.
Posted to the site on 4th March 2008
