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Microsoft: employee stole documents for patent lawsuit

Microsoft has filed a lawsuit with the goal of blocking a patent lawsuit that targets three OEMs for using Microsoft's anti-piracy technology System Locked Preinstallation (SLP). The software giant alleges that an ex-employee stole documents from it in... ...full story at digg

from digg on Tue, Feb 03 2009

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