On Wednesday Microsoft announced that it had reached a settlement with Primax Electronics, a mouse manufacturer of which Microsoft sued in July for patent infringement. Microsoft said that it had sued Primax Electronics after it had failed to negotiate a suitable licensing deal with the Taiwan-based company.

The patents Primax Electroncics are accused of infringing relate to two mouses technologies. The first allows a mouse to connect to both USB and PS/2 ports and auto-detect which type of port it is connected to. Another technology called TiltWheel relates to controlling cursor movement by tilting a mouse.

Microsoft has been licensing patents since late 2003 and it currently licenses over 30 to companies in the mouse and keyboard industry.

Source: Cnet

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