19 May 2010

Troll

Microsoft has filed suit against Salesforce for infringing the following patent:

  1. Method and system for mapping between logical data and physical data
  2. System and method for providing and displaying a web page having an embedded menu
  3. Method and system for stacking toolbars in a computer display
  4. Automated web site creation using template driven generation of active server page applications
  5. Aggregation of system settings into objects
  6. Timing and velocity control for displaying graphical information
  7. Timing and velocity control for displaying graphical information
  8. Method and system for identifying and obtaining computer software from a remote computer
  9. System and method for controlling access to data entities in a computer network
via 37signals.com

Patent troll is troll. Nobody likes troll.