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Message: Microsoft loses $367 million patent decision
Microsoft loses $367 million patent decision
By John Letzing, MarketWatch
Last update: 8:24 p.m. EDT April 4, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- A jury has ordered Microsoft Corp. to pay $367 million in damages to Alcatel-Lucent for infringing patents related to user interface technology, the software giant announced Friday
Microsoft Corporation plans to seek to have the verdict overturned, a company spokesman said. Alcatel-Lucent had been seeking $1.75 billion in damages The patents asserted against Microsoft in the trial in U.S. District Court in San Diego are among a number being litigated by the two parties in an ongoing case that originated in 2003.
The most high-profile decision stemming from the case so far was handed down last year, when Microsoft was ordered to pay $1.5 billion for infringing Alcatel-Lucent patents related to MP3 technology.
A judge later reversed that decision, though. See related story.
Alcatel-Lucent had claimed in the present trial that Microsoft infringed on a video-coding patent and two patents related to user interface technology.
The jury found that Microsoft did not infringe on the video-coding patent, but did infringe the two user interface patents.
"We feel confident the verdicts will be overturned, just as the court overturned a verdict last year by a San Diego jury in Alcatel-Lucent's favor in a dispute with Microsoft concerning widely used MP3 technology," Microsoft deputy general counsel Tom Burt said in a statement. 
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