Summary: Details about a new lawsuits are starting to surface

1. MasterObjects Sues Microsoft Over Instant Search Patent Infringement

Software firm MasterObjects has sued Microsoft for allegedly infringing on one of its patents related to the instant search feature.

The lawsuit, which also names Amazon and Google as defendants, claims that the accused use one of its patented technologies that displays completed research terms as users type in the search bar.

2. Master Objects sues Microsoft over instant search

SOFTWARE COMPANY Master Objects has sued Microsoft for allegedly infringing its patent relating to instant search.

Master Objects alleges that its founder, Mark Smit solved the problem of the so-called "request-response loop", which was the traditional approach used by search engines. This required a search query to be sent to a database server, with a response sent back to the web server, and then an HTML page had to be constructed for the results before finally sending that to a user's browser.