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Microsoft is Still ‘Cybermobbing’ Its Competition Using Patent Trolls Such as Finjan

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Roy Schestowitz
Jun 18, 2018

In the “cybersecurity” space, a sub-domain where many software patents have been granted by the US patent office, the patent extortion by Microsoft-connected trolls (and Microsoft’s ‘protection’ racket) seems to carry on; but Microsoft continues to insist that it has changed its ways

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Roy Schestowitz

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