<p>Share us on: Facebook LinkedIn By Benjamin Horney Law360, New York (September 23, 2013, 6:51 PM ET) -- Microsoft Corp., Adobe Systems Inc., Zynga Inc. and International Business Machines Corp. were sued Friday by Texas-based Catharon Intellectual Property LLC, which claims the companies are violating a patent related to the control, storage and transfer of computer programs on a computer network.</p><p>The lawsuits allege that many of the defendant's programs infringe on U.S. Patent Number 6,065,046. Among the programs are Microsoft's Silverlight and Prism, Adobe's Flex and Creative Suite, Zynga's Words With Friends and FarmVille and International Business Machine's WebSphere Portal and WebSphere Application...</p><p>To view the full article, take a free trial now.</p><p><a href="http://www.law360.com/articles/474669/microsoft-adobe-others-sued-over-network-patent">Keep reading...</a></p>