Microsoft Being Sued Over Fingerprint Patent
Microsoft is being sued by a firm which claims it's infringing a fingerprint patent.
International Automated Systems (IAS) Inc started the case in a Utah district court earlier this week, with the plaintiffs being Microsoft and "John Does 1-20".
IAS alleges that Microsoft and the Does are breaching US patent 5,598,474 - a "process for encrypting a fingerprint onto an IDA card". That patent was issued to Neldon Johnson on the 28th of January 1997. It's alleged Microsoft and the Does made, sold and continue to make fingerprint readers covered by the patent.
posted by Fergie @ 2/08/2006 06:58:00 AM
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