Microsoft Office Live lawsuit

Remember that new Office Live productivity suite that Microsoft just launched? It's facing a lawsuit. A company called OfficeLive has filed a trademark infringement suit over Microsoft's use of the "Office Live" name.

OfficeLive runs sites that offer free professional advice to consumers under the names Legalofficelive.com and Realtorsofficelive.com, among others. An injunction has been issued to prevent Microsoft from using the name in the marketplace. What will this do to Microsoft? Well...it's getting to be a big enough pain, Microsoft can always just dump some bling bling on OfficeLive. Maybe purchase them outright and sell off their assets? Or, maybe an old-fashioned Compu-Global-Hyper-Mega-Net style buyout? "Break his legs, boys!"

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