Azul Systems, a company selling hardware to run Java programs, has sued Sun Microsystems in a dispute about software patent fees and royalties. The start-up filed for declaratory relief Wednesday "to protect the interests of the company in the face of unfounded allegations from Sun Microsystems". Azul says the larger company threatened to sue if it didn't pay an "exorbitant" amount, giving Sun part ownership. Azul wants a judge in the Northern California region's US District Court to declare a judgment against Sun that Azul doesn't infringe a list of 20 Sun patents or that those patents are invalid, according to a complaint the company said it filed Tuesday. Several of those patents involve processors running multiple tasks at once — a technology Sun and Azul both are pursuing through development of multicore chips.

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