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Posted on ZDNet News: Apr 5, 2008 12:25:00 AM

Microsoft said on Friday a U.S. jury awarded Alcatel-Lucent $367.4 million in damages after finding that the software giant had violated two patents related to the user interface in its Windows operating system.

Microsoft, which will seek to have the verdict overturned, said Alcatel-Lucent was seeking $1.5 billion in damages related to the four patents named in the case. Microsoft said the jury found that Microsoft did not infringe on Alcatel's video decoding technology patent.

The fourth patent in the lawsuit was asserted only against Dell, which was found not to have infringed, according to Microsoft.

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Except that Microsoft continue to demonstrate utter contempt for the Law. So wheter it's copyright, patent, or any other form of IPR, Microsoft abuse their wealth and market dominance by deploying a p... (Read the rest)
Posted by: David Gale Posted on: 06/05/08 You are currently: a Guest | | Terms of Use
Pursuit of Justice  Sagax- | 04/05/08
You misunderstand  cmjrees | 04/05/08
And...  zkiwi | 04/05/08
Most countries refuse to allow patents on software, except  hkommedal | 04/09/08
Except that...  David Gale | 06/05/08
RE: Jury rules for Alcatel in Microsoft patent case  suemccartin | 04/07/08
this is not the 1st time ....  cammobus@... | 05/08/08
Praise be to somewhere other than Redmond!  Ole Man | 04/07/08
Software patents is in deep need of being scrapped.  hkommedal | 04/09/08
RE: Jury rules for Alcatel in Microsoft patent case  GeneBuettner | 04/07/08
Copyright is worse than Patents  Mr_Dave | 04/07/08
All that is missing now is that someone patents  hkommedal | 04/09/08
Sod it.  odubtaig | 04/07/08
Excactly. All it does is to put the US at a disadvantage.  hkommedal | 04/09/08
snowflake's chance...  oregonnerd13 | 04/11/08
RE: Jury rules for Alcatel in Microsoft patent case  wjarvis@... | 04/07/08
Most likely the patent was unknown to them.  hkommedal | 04/09/08
RE: Jury rules for Alcatel in Microsoft patent case  andreass48@... | 04/07/08
Theft is theft no matter how you disguise it  accems | 04/09/08
This is why  Jxn | 04/30/08
IBM patents, Sun patents, patents, landmines  Boot_Agnostic | 04/08/08
RE: Jury rules for Alcatel in Microsoft patent case  jpm007 | 04/08/08
How sad it is  Ole Man | 04/08/08
RE: Jury rules for Alcatel in Microsoft patent case  hkommedal | 04/09/08
In which case modify the law to a use it or lose it  Mahegan | 04/11/08

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