lawsuit thumb thumb Cygnus Systems sues Google, Microsoft, Apple over patent violation

Cygnus Systems filed suit against tech giants: Google, Microsoft, and Apple over what the networking company claims to be a violation of its document-preview icons in operating systems. Cygnus Systems’ patent covers:

methods and systems for accessing one or more computer files via a graphical icon, wherein the graphical icon includes an image of a selected portion or portions of one or more computer files.