Alcatel-Lucent Wins $1.52 Billion Patent Judgment Against Microsoft


Alcatel-Lucent Wins $1.52 Billion Patent Judgment Against Microsoft

A California jury has ruled that Microsoft must pay Alcatel-Lucent $1.52 billion for infringing two MP3 audio compression patents. Microsoft will appeal the verdict. Microsoft uses MP3 software in its Windows Media Player. The software was co-designed by Bell Labs, Lucent's predecessor, and the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits. Microsoft paid Fraunhofer $16 million for

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