Microsoft to pay $512M to Alcatel-Lucent in patent damages
Posted July 2nd, 2008 by Alex Ion
On June 20, Marilyn Huff a U.S. judge upheld a jury’s ruling for $368 million in damages against Microsoft Corp for violating patents held by Alcatel-Lucent. The whole amount however, is bigger, because Bill’s company has to pay a total of 512 million, which includes interest on the original award.
“We had always believed we had a strong case and are pleased that the judge agreed that the jury’s thoughtful verdict was well reasoned and supported by the evidence,” Alcatel-Lucent spokeswoman Mary Ward said in a statement.
Microsoft said the infringement for those two video-encoding patents (which are obviously still so relevant to the proceedings in these cases) are related to technology that allows users to enter dates into calendars and the other one is used in tablet computers to recognize patterns in handwriting. They are going to appeal the decision again.
I’m not sure what they’re based on but it’s pretty clear they may not win that battle.
