Microsoft, Viacom, UAL, Warner Music: Intellectual Property

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Microsoft Corp. and Google Inc. were sued for allegedly violating a Louisiana company’s patent covering mapping technology that helps computer users see locations in three dimensions.

Officials of Transcenic Inc. contend in a lawsuit that executives of Google, owner of the world’s biggest search engine, and Microsoft, the world’s biggest software maker, infringe patents for technology that helps capture 3-D images of map locations.