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Turn of Sterling Computers to Patent Litigation No Fluke
New Patent Litigation
Sterling Computers Corporation has followed up an April 2024 case against Microsoft with a pair of suits in May, one against Meta Platforms (1:24-cv-00551) and the other against X (f/k/a Twitter) (1:24-cv-00552), both also filed in the Western District of Texas and both over a single patent generally related to determining a “relevance score” for electronic content sent to a user. The defendants are accused of infringement through the use of content recommendation and ranking systems on the Facebook and X social media platforms, respectively.
May 25, 2024
Email Storage Suit Targets Microsoft
New Patent Litigation
Characterizing itself as an “ISO 9001:2015 certified firm that is committed to providing the highest quality of IT sales and services”, Sterling Computers Corporation has sued Microsoft (1:24-cv-00406) over the provision of its Exchange Online platform, targeting features related to “mail flow rules”. In the new Western District of Texas complaint, the plaintiff asserts a single patent generally related to an electronic messaging system with a “governance module”, the pleading characterizing the patent as covering an “object-based messaging invention” that allows each message in an email thread to be stored only once.
April 19, 2024