In 2004, Peter A. Hochstein and Jeffrey Tenenbaum filed a lawsuit against Microsoft and Sony, accusing them both of infringing on its "Apparatus and method for electrically connecting remotely located video games" patent.
In April this year, Sony settled out of court. This week, Judge Paul D. Borman accused Microsoft of employing courtroom tricks in order to stretch the proceedings.
Two months ago, Judge Paul D. Borman called out Microsoft counsel for flooding the plaintiff with over 140,000 of non-indexed marketing documents, just a few days before . In the court filing, the Borman reaffirmed that the plaintiff requested the marketing documents on February 13, and on March 23, "Microsoft began to roll out, over a period of eight days, 143,733 documents in response...".
"This misconduct will be the subject of a separate Court Order directing Microsoft to explain why its counsel should not be sanctioned under 28 U.S.C. § 1927 for unreasonably and exatiously multiplying the proceedings," the judge said.
