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Microsoft Pays $440M to License InterTrust Patents

Posted by timothy on from the never-intertrust-anyone dept.

theodp writes "Microsoft is paying $440 million to InterTrust to settle a three-year-old patent infringement lawsuit over DRM technology for protecting music, movies and other digital content against piracy. Under the settlement agreement, customers can use Microsoft products and services without a license from InterTrust. Developers, however, may need a license from InterTrust for other uses, including the combination of Microsoft technology with third-party technology." C.J. adds a link to the New York Times' coverage of the settlement.

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  1. More Info @ The Register by BandwidthHog · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/12/ms_settles _intertrust/

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    Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?
    1. Re:More Info @ The Register by BandwidthHog · · Score: 3, Informative

      Oops. Nice and clicky now.

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      Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?
  2. NY Times Reg-free link by Patik · · Score: 3, Informative
    click here

  3. Re:0.4 billion. by Osrin · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://www.nasdaq.com/asp/extendfund.asp?symbol=MS FT&selected=MSFT&page=full

    That shows a net profit of about $26bn, and around $10bn in net earnings for 2003.

    Times are probably not as tough as you think.

  4. 58 Billion! by bettlebrox · · Score: 3, Informative

    2 Billion to Sun.
    1/2 Billion to Intertrust.
    Only another 50.4 odd Billion to go!

    (MS has 52.8 Billion in the bank: http://money.cnn.com/2004/02/26/technology/techinv estor/lamonica/)

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