Microsoft assembles unlikely band of brothers against patent trolls

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Google, Apple, Yahoo!, Dell, Intel, Facebook and Hewlett-Packard have all come out in support of Microsoft’s efforts to upend a patent infringement verdict that ordered the software giant to pay $290m in damages.

Microsoft is hoping to convince the US Supreme Court to rethink how the country’s judicial system decides the validity of patents...

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