<p>Share us on: Facebook LinkedIn By Bill Donahue Law360, New York (April 15, 2013, 4:49 PM ET) -- A patent-holding computer engineer sued Microsoft Corp., Oracle Corp., IBM Corp. and at least eight others on Friday, claiming the companies infringed his patented system for improved data storage by selling products like Microsoft's SharePoint.</p><p>Kenneth H. Conner and his Data Speed Technology LLC lodged 11 separate suits in all, also filing cases against Cisco Systems Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., LexisNexis Group, EMC Corp., Novell Inc., Zoho Corp. and World Software Corp.</p><p>The suits all claim that Conner is a "lifelong computer engineer" who invented a system...</p><p>To view the full article, take a free trial now.</p><p><a href="http://www.law360.com/technology/articles/432768/microsoft-oracle-ibm-hit-with-data-storage-patent-suit">Keep reading...</a></p>