Microsoft Corp. must file a reply on Monday in a lawsuit filed last month against it by Sendo Ltd., a Birmingham, England-based mobile phone developer.
Sendo formed a partnership with Microsoft in October 1999 to help develop e-mail- and Internet-enabled mobile telephone handsets based on Microsoft's Stinger operating system for use by cellular carriers worldwide.
In its suit, Sendo alleged that Microsoft used the partnership to "plunder" Sendo's intellectual property, proprietary hardware expertise and trade secrets and then transfer them to other manufacturers.
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern Division of Texas granted Microsoft one extension to reply to the lawsuit, but the case docket shows that the court did not grant a second extension. Jon Murchison, a Microsoft spokesman, confirmed that the company would file its response Monday.
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