While the timing of the lawsuit makes an out - of - court settlement more likely, such a development may still not be plausible due to
the scope of the alleged infringement which could easily make Wixen Music Publishing's settlement demands deemed too high by Spotify.
While usually Microsoft doesn't sue other companies for patents
infringement, preferring to sign cross licensing agreements (HTC, Amazon signed such agreements last year) this time Horacio Gutierrez, Microsoft's VP and intellectual property figure said «We simply can not ignore
infringement of this
scope and scale» and that
alleged infringed patents cover a range
of functions» essential to the user experience.»