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Alcatel Awarded $367 Million in MS Patent Case

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the new-business-models dept.

eldavojohn writes "For violating two Alcatel-Lucent patents in its Windows user interface, Microsoft was ordered to pay Alcatel-Lucent $367 Million Friday. From the article, '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 Inc, which was found not to have infringed, according to Microsoft.'"

3 of 65 comments (clear)

  1. Very short article by 26199 · · Score: 3, Informative

    This one has a little more info. Does anyone have a link for the actual patents?

  2. Better article by 26199 · · Score: 3, Informative

    And this one goes on to mention that Microsoft will now proceed to sue Alcatel-Lucent over nine patents.

    That's going to hurt. Patent lawsuits are not a good game to get into if you actually produce something.

  3. Re:patents will end up being ignored by cashdot · · Score: 3, Informative

    the problem is that right now -anything- is being considered a bloody invention You are aware, that this is valid only for the US patent system? The US patent system is different (and IMHO worse) than all other patent systems in many ways, like 'first to file', triple damages, non-compliance with the international patent classification system, prior art searcb almost exclusivly within their own patents, ...