Microsoft sued for $90 million over Halo patents

PalTalk Holdings Inc. is suing software giant Microsoft over patents related to the Halo series of games, Bloomberg reports.

The patents relate to “technology for ways to control interactive applications over multiple computers,” a vaguely worded patent if I’ve ever heard one, but that seems to be the way of things. PalTalk bought the patents for under $200,000 (according to a Microsoft lawyer) from a company called MPath Interactive.

In the suit, PalTalk lawyer Max Tribble stipulates that Microsoft met with MPath numerous times, but ultimately decided not to license the technology. Microsoft claims the patents pertained to dial-up tech, which obviously isn’t used for Halo.

According to Law360, this suit is actually two years old and is just coming to trial now.

Read: $90 million sought from Microsoft