Media Rights Technologies Sues Microsoft for Alleged Intellectual Property Theft: | PR Newswire [Video]

High-Stakes Lawsuit Alleges Billions of Copyright Violations as well as Trade Secret Theft for Streaming Music and Movies on the Cloud

, /PRNewswire/ — Media Rights Technologies, Inc. (MRT), a California-based software development company, and its founder, Hank Risan, have filed a lawsuit against Microsoft Corporation, alleging copyright infringement, trade secret theft, trafficking in counterfeit labels, circumvention of copyright protections, distributing false copyright management information, and violation of a DMCA takedown order related to MRT’s patented and copyrighted digital rights management (DRM) technology. DRM technology secures the streaming of music and movies for media companies and is distributed when PC manufacturers sell computers with the Windows Operating System included.

The complaint was filed in the United States District Court, District of Columbia, and can be reviewed at this link. Senior Judge Richard J. Leon has been assigned to handle this case.

Decades of Sweeping Alleged Infringement

The lawsuit claims Microsoft stole and embedded MRT’s technology in billions of …