Jury says Microsoft owes Alcatel-Lucent $376M in patent damages
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Hey, advert that Microsoft / Alcatel-Lucent papers fisticuffs from 2006? Yeah, we didn’t conceive so — but the digit companies hit been duking it discover in suite over most decade assorted patents for a pair eld now, and a commission ruled today that Microsoft infringed digit individual interface-related patents and owes restitution to the set of $376M. The digit patents both counterbalance touchscreens, with digit describing a grouping of modify accumulation entry, and the added describing tool accumulation interpretation. Sexy, we know. The commission also institute that the Microsoft had not infringed digit added Alcatel-Lucent video-decoding patents, but the rulings doesn’t stingy this is every eventually over — Microsoft is thinking on directly attractive the decision, and there are ease individual added video-related patents existence litigated. Yeah, we’re on edges of our way here — set in incoming instance for added excitingly dulled broadcast of Marshall Justice.
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Fri, 21st November 2008
