Cygnus sued Microsoft Google and Apple
An Indiana based company has sued Microsoft, Apple, and Google, on holding the patent on a common file preview feature used by browsers and operating systems to show users small snapshots of the files before they are opened.
Cygnus Systems sued the giants companies claiming that they infringed on its patent with products such as Windows Vista, Internet Explorer 8 and Google Chrome, which offers to view preview images of documents on the computer. Mac OS X, the iPhone and Safari also infringe, the company patent. Apple uses this technology in its Finder and Cover Flow Mac OS X features, the filings state.
While Cygnus has sued three very high profile companies, there may not be the only vendors in Cygnus’s sites. “They were a logical starting place for us,” said Matt McAndrews, a partner with the Niro, Scavone, Haller & Niro, law firm, which is representing Cygnus. “We’ve identified many other potentially infringing products that we’re investigating,
