Microsoft ordered to pay $ 367 million to Lucent Alcatel
A jury in San Diego (California) condemned Friday the American company Microsoft to pay 367.4 million dollars to the telecom equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent, giving partly due to Franco-American group in a procedure for patent infringement.
The jury stated that Microsoft had not violated all four patents for which he was prosecuted, refusing to Alcatel-Lucent the sum of 1.75 billion dollars that the group claimed as damage.
Lucent accused Microsoft of selling computers with Microsoft applications using technology from Lucent without permission.
Microsoft had joined the litigation in order to protect its partnerships with manufacturers of computers and prevent it being extended to other companies who use its software.
The technology involved in the trial on Friday was related to applications to play DVDs with Windows or in applications like Outlook, Money and Microsoft Windows Mobile.
Microsoft and Alcatel-Lucent will battle again in court on April 22. This time, Microsoft is pursuing Alcatel-Lucent in connection with nine complaints for patent infringement.
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Mister-info.com Team, April 05, 2008.
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