Microsoft sued over digital rights patent
TAIPEI -- InterTrust Technologies Corp., a Santa Clara, California-based developer of distributed digital rights management technology, Thursday announced that it has filed a patent infringement complaint against Microsoft Corp. in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
In the complaint, InterTrust alleges that Microsoft's Windows Media Player and other products implement a variety of rights management functions that infringe on a patent issued to InterTrust in February this year, the company said in a statement. InterTrust is seeking an injunction and monetary damages from Microsoft, it said.
The patent in question relates to systems and system components used for receiving encrypted content, securely managing content use, and transmitting rights-managed content and related rules to other users, InterTrust said.
A spokesperson for Microsoft Corp. could not immediately be reached for comment.
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