Microsoft has filed a lawsuit against Salesforce.com, alleging that the CRM company is infringing on nine of its patents. The move is somewhat surprising, as this is only the fourth time that Microsoft has sued another company for patent violations (though it has been the target of plenty of them). Here's the statement from Horacio Gutierrez, Microsoft's corporate vice president and deputy general counsel of Intellectual Property and Licensing: “Microsoft has filed an action today, in
the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, against Salesforce. mehr bei techcrunch.com
