Microsoft (2:24-cv-00448) has filed a Western District of Washington case against individual inventor ATM Shafiqul Khalid and his Xencare Software, Inc., seeking declaratory judgments of noninfringement of three patents, two generally related to a “mini-cloud system for enabling user subscription in a residential environment” and another to running “computer software applications” based on a “rule table”. Microsoft alleges that there is an actual and immediate dispute existing between the parties due to “substantial and substantive allegations of patent infringement by Microsoft’s Windows operating system and Xbox consoles and gaming services made in expert reports served by Defendants in Khalid v. Microsoft Corp.”—a state court action filed before the King County Superior Court.