Apple has licensed design patents over which its suing Microsoft, according to a Twitter post (http://macte.ch/Y3S5L) by Dan Levine, a legal reporter for “Reuters “who’s covering the trial from the courtroom.

The announcement was made during the proceedings by Boris Teksler, director of Patent Licensing & strategy at Apple.”Apple patent licensing director Teksler: Apple has licensed its design patents to Msft, but they have an “anticloning” agreement,” Levine tweaked.