Microsoft sued over Excel data-linking technology
Microsoft illegally took technology used to link spreadsheet data between two of its programs from a Guatemalan inventor, lawyers said during opening statements at a jury trial that started on Tuesday.
Carlos Armando Amado said in a lawsuit that he filed for a patent in 1990 for software that links Microsoft’s Excel program with its Access database application via a single spreadsheet, and that he unsuccessfully tried to sell it to Microsoft two years later.
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