Former Microsoft executive Paul Allen is probably a little disappointed with today’s ruling, as the case against a number of services, including Google, has been dismissed.  The judge declared the initiative emerged by Allen’s company, Interval Licensing, as being too vague.

Allen’s lawsuit, claimed Apple, Google, Facebook, Yahoo, AOL, eBay, Office Depot, Office Max, Staples and Netflix, representing Microsoft’s claim of having had infringed patents, which were developed by the Interval Licensing company during the ‘90s.

The patents which are at the center of the dispute, feature the following:

• “Browser for Use in Navigating a Body of Information, With Particular Application to Browsing Information Represented By Audiovisual Data.”
• “Attention Manager for Occupying the Peripheral Attention of a Person in the Vicinity of a Display Device.”
• “Attention Manager for Occupying the Peripheral Attention of a Person in the Vicinity of a Display Device.”
• “Alerting Users to Items of Current Interest.”

Among other patent wars, there is the recently presented Apple 3D concept, which can have multiple applications for its product lines, especially in the entertainment department.  Apple stemmed a 3D type of visualization, though it is a very peculiar technology, with plenty of implications in home entertainment, especially in PC gaming.

Clinches in the technology domain are not a rarity, as Microsoft and Google’s representatives have undertaken a verbal fight during Dive into Mobile Conference. The key points of the contra-argument were the innovation level of the deployed technologies by Microsoft on one side, and Google’s Android similarity in design with Linux.

The mobile industry is filled with patent lawsuits, as the major players look to dominate as much of the sector’s money-making potential as possible. For instance, RIM kicked recently KIK for infringing the patents related to BBM.