EXHIBIT NUMBER 99.1
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Contacts:

Todd Slosek                                      Ed Fish

InterTrust Technologies                          InterTrust Technologies
408-855-0424                                     408-855-0104


                                                                    NEWS RELEASE

INTERTRUST SUES MICROSOFT FOR INFRINGING DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT PATENT CLAIMS

Santa Clara, CA, April 26, 2001 -- InterTrust Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ:
ITRU), the leading developer of distributed Digital Rights Management (DRM)
technology, today announced that it has filed a patent infringement complaint
against Microsoft Corporation in the United States District Court for the
Northern District of California. In the complaint, InterTrust has alleged that
Microsoft infringes InterTrust's United States Patent No. 6,185,683 (the `683
Patent), and seeks an injunction in addition to monetary damages.

The `683 Patent was issued to InterTrust on February 6, 2001 as InterTrust's
eighteenth U.S. Patent.  While InterTrust's inventive work focuses on a broad
range of subjects relating to digital rights management technology and secure
computing, the `683 Patent focuses, among other things, on systems and important
system components for receiving encrypted content and rules, securely managing
content use, and transmitting rights managed content and related rules to other
users.

In the complaint, InterTrust has alleged that Microsoft's distribution and sale
of Windows Media Player and other products implementing a host of rights
management functions directly infringe and contribute to the infringement of the
`683 Patent. InterTrust has retained John Keker, from the litigation specialty
firm of Keker & Van Nest, LLP to represent them in the litigation.

"From its founding over 11 years ago, InterTrust has been researching and
inventing technologies for efficient management of digital rights and trusted
electronic interaction," said Victor Shear, Founder, Chairman and CEO,
InterTrust Technologies. "We believe our patent portfolio is a very important
asset, and our commitment to innovation is reflected by its scope and quality."

About InterTrust Technologies Corporation

InterTrust Technologies Corporation is the leading developer of peer-to-peer,
distributed digital rights management (DRM) technology. It's general-purpose DRM
trust platform serves as a foundation for trusted peer-to-peer and client server
e-commerce. InterTrust holds numerous patents in the area of


trusted systems technology and peer-to-peer rights management, and licenses its
technology and patents in the form of software or hardware and tools to
partners. These partners provide digital commerce services and applications that
together form a global digital commerce network branded as the MetaTrust
Utility(TM). InterTrust is the neutral administrator of the MetaTrust Utility
network, defining and enforcing the rules which maintain the security,
commercial reliability, and trusted interoperability of devices, services, and
applications deployed on the platform.


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