Inventor-Controlled Plaintiff Targets Microsoft’s Azure

In an Eastern District of Texas complaint, ToutVirtual, Inc. accuses Microsoft (2:25-cv-00943) of infringing five patents through the provision of its cloud computing platform Azure and its management programs that are alleged to implement “virtual instances and service managers” such as “Azure Resource Manager, Azure Portal, and Windows Admin Center, among others”. The plaintiff describes the patents as “cover[ing] a specific improvement in virtualization management” and pleads willfulness based on past interactions with the defendant, with which the plaintiff’s founder elsewhere recounts having developed a “key industry partnership”.