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July 7, 2008
Replay
The
CAFC heard oral arguments today in the jury-trial fantasy $1.5 billion award to
Alcatel-Lucent from Microsoft for infringing two MP3 audio patents. The district
court judge pitched the jury verdict, finding non-infringement on one, and lack
of standing on the other. Microsoft claims it licensed the patents from a German
research institute for $16 million, which Alcatel terms impossible. The high
award figure was based on worldwide Windows sales, an engorgement of revenue
base that the Supreme Court disallowed in
AT&T v. Microsoft.
Posted by Patent Hawk at July 7, 2008 6:51 PM | Litigation