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The biggest examples do not involve Microsoft at all. The only case I know of was the MS vs Sun JavaScript / JScript but MS were the ones accused, as they have been in ever case I could find.
The significant code IP cases were:
AT&T claimed patent #4,555,775, issued to Rob Pike in 1985, covered the "backing store" functionality in MIT's X Window System and issued Cease & Desist letters to MIT.
MIT defended their position and eventually AT&T withdrew their claim.
UNIX System Laboratories, Inc. v. Berkeley Software Design, Inc. was the lawsuit brought in New Jersey federal court in 1992 by Unix System Laboratories against Berkeley Software Design, Inc and the Regents of the University of California.
This was the most famous computer code copyright lawsuit until the Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc., 593 U.S. ___ (2021), which was a U.S. Supreme Court decision related to the nature of computer code and copyright law.