Jury Finds Google Guilty of Standards-Essential Patents Abuse Against MS

recoiledsnake writes "A federal jury in Seattle ordered Google to pay Microsoft $14.5 million in damages for breach of contract for failing to license at reasonable terms standard essential patents covering wireless and video technology used in the Xbox game console. Motorola had demanded Microsoft pay annual royalties of up to $4 billion for use of patents that are part of the H.264 video and 802.11 wireless standards, which are baked into Windows and the Xbox video game console. Microsoft said it was willing to pay royalties but not at the 2.25 percent of the product price that Motorola sought. We previously covered Motorola's exorbitant demands."

Comments

Nice summary

[jbernardo]

Another example of the loaded, pro-MS language that has become the standard in Slashdot lately. :(

"Exhorbitant demands"? Really?

Re:Nice summary

[zieroh]

I find your re-telling of the story to be lacking in factual basis. I'd also like to point out that the modern era of PJ at Groklaw is one of gross and obvious bias, as evidenced by the fact that her telling of the story completely and utterly failed to anticipate the actual outcome of this dispute.