Tag: Microsoft

TAEUS & Microsoft Beget PatentBooks

By Solange Richter | September 15, 2026 |

TAEUS has had a long and colorful history with Microsoft. For nearly four decades, beginning in the early 1990s, TAEUS has investigated Microsoft for patent infringement. In fact, the TAEUS history with Microsoft was PatentBooks genesis. Unisys, via its Burroughs acquisition, developed the Lempel, Ziv, Welch (LZW) patented technology to deal with submarine sonar reports.…

TAEUS War Stories: EC vs. Microsoft

By Art Nutter | January 15, 2019 |

Some years ago, TAEUS Europe Ltd. won a €9 million European Commission (EC) competitive tender for assistance with their antitrust investigation of Microsoft. The EC was responding to complaints from Microsoft competitors that believed that Microsoft was blocking them from making products compatible with its Internet Explorer™ internet browser and Microsoft Windows™ operating system. …