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Microsoft to Help Cloud Customers with Patent Litigation

2017/02/16

Microsoft has revealed plans to use its patent portfolio to help protect cloud customers from patent litigation.
In a blog post, Brad Smith, president and chief legal officer of Microsoft, announced the new programme, called Microsoft Azure IP Advantage.
The programme will offer IP protection with uncapped indemnification coverage, which will now also cover any open source technology that powers Microsoft Azure services.
Microsoft Azure is the company’s cloud computing platform.
Microsoft will also make 10,000 of its patents available to Azure customers for the “sole purpose of enabling them to better defend themselves against patent lawsuits” filed against “their services that run on top of Azure”.

Source: WIPR
　　




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