U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in case between Microsoft and AT&T

U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in case between Microsoft and AT&T

The US Supreme Court has said that they would intervene in the court case between the software giant Microsoft and the telecom giant AT&T.

They would now consider on whether Microsoft should have to pay damages overseas for infringing a speech recognition software patent owned by AT&T Inc.

Experts believe that this is an important case and it could determine the reach of U.S. patents overseas.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has said in a ruling that Microsoft was liable for the unauthorized distribution of codec technology which is used to compress speech signals into data.

U.S. Solicitor General Paul Clement of the Justice Department had urged the higher courts to review the case.