Thursday, September 25, 2008

Microsoft Escapes A $1.5B Judgement

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has affirmed (link) a lower court's decision that Microsoft was not infringing U.S. Patent No. 5,341,457 of Alcatel-Lucent's patents for MP3 digital audio technology, and had a proper license for the U.S. Patent No. RE 39,080.

A jury last year had decided that Microsoft was infringing on Alcatel-Lucent's MP3 patents, and ordered it to pay more than $1.54 billion in damages.

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