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Microsoft Found Guilty of Patent Infringement

Posted by samzenpus on from the pay-up dept.

Spy der Mann writes "Microsoft has been found guilty of patent infringement and ordered to pay a Guatamalan inventor Carlos Armando Amado almost $9m in damages. The US District Court of Central California court ruled that Microsoft had infringed on his intellectual property and ordered it to pay him $8.96m. The patent in question is a method to transfer data between Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Access using a single spreadsheet."

2 of 342 comments (clear)

  1. Re:In other news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    And you're Un-American, with your crazy spellings.

    Now THAT'S a riot!

  2. Re:In other news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Shut up, Data.