Alcatel and Microsoft say 'business as usual' despite patent spat
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Let's stay together for the children's sake Analysis The legal action uncovered this week between Microsoft and Alcatel is seen by many as sounding the death knell to their cosy carve up of the IPTV market among global tier one telcos.â¦
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Net phone company says it didn't copy Verizon's patents, but the telecommunications giant says harm has been done and its VoIP rival must pay.
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Qualcomm and Nokia are working to resolve their long-running, expensive legal dispute.
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French phone equipment firm Alcatel sues Microsoft, accusing it of infringing seven of its patents.
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A U.S. federal jury found that  Microsoft Corp.  infringed audio patents held by  Alcatel-Lucent   and should pay $1.52 billion in  damages, the No. 1 software maker said on Thursday.
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Qualcomm scored a minor victory in its continuing spat with Nokia when a judge last week recommended ending&#160;the investigation Nokia brought&#160;against it in August for infringing patents.In August, Nokia asked the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) to&#160;ban the import of Qualcomm chip sets&#160;used in cell phones, including 3G (third-generation handsets), for allegedly infringing on five patents held by Nokia.ITC Administrative Law Judge Paul Luckern granted Qualcomm a motion to terminate the investigation, as the companies are already in arbitration to settle a dispute behind a technology license the two companies signed earlier. If the decision stands after a 30-day review, Qualcomm won&#39;t be prevented from importing its chip sets into the U.S.Nokia originally requested ITC to initiate an investigation against Qualcomm for infringing patents and issue an exclusion order to bar the import of infringing Qualcomm chip sets into the U.S.For two years now, the spat between the two companies over patent licensing has led to several lawsuits.Last year,&#160;Qualcomm filed a complaint with the ITC against Nokia over GSM&#160;(Global System for Mobile Communication) patents.The ITC is already investigating Nokia after&#160;InterDigital complained that Nokia infringed&#160;two of its 3G wireless technology patents. The commission also&#160;banned some Qualcomm imports&#160;in June, after&#160;complaints from Broadcom for patent infringement.
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Broadcom and Verizon Wireless have reached a deal that will allow Verizon to continue to import and sell phones involved in continuing litigation.
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Microsoft Corp. and UK mobile phone maker Sendo Holdings PLC have ended a two-year legal dispute over smart phones with a settlement, the companies said Monday.
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A US jury found that Microsoft infringed audio patents held by the world's biggest software maker Alcatel-Lucent.   Microsoft has been ordered to pay Pounds 778m in damages, however the firm says it may appeal the ruling.   It says the verdict is unsupported by the law or the facts.
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A German court stayed a patent-infringement case that Qualcomm filed against Nokia, as hearings regarding a similar case in the U.S. International Trade Commission suit continue.
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InfoWorld - Ongoing legal disputes over mobile phone patents between Nokia and Qualcomm are consuming much executive management time, generating substantial lawyer fees, and, if they escalate, could affect handset development and prices, experts warn.
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SAN DIEGO -- Alcatel - Lucent told a jury it is owed almost $2 billion for Microsoft Corp.'s use of the standard technology for playing music and audio files on a computer, a dispute that may affect hundreds of companies that rely on MP3.
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A U.S. federal jury found that  Microsoft Corp.  infringed audio patents held by  Alcatel-Lucent   and should pay $1.52 billion in  damages, Microsoft said on Thursday.
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Alcatel  on Monday  released preliminary second-quarter results that were in line  with company expectations.
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The ground-breaking legal settlement and technology sharing deal between Microsoft Corp and Sun Microsystems Inc will not diminish competition between the two adversaries.
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A U.S. court ruled on Thursday that Dell Inc.  personal-organizer products did not infringe a patent held by Alcatel-Lucent  , according to a court document.
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In unlikely combination, U.S. government and advocates of free and open-source software are backing Microsoft in patent spat with AT&#38;T.