Microsoft wins in second Alcatel-Lucent patent suit
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Judge rules the Windows maker did not infringe on a speech-recognition patent; Alcatel-Lucent plans to appeal.
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Alcatel has accused Microsoft of infringing seven of its U.S. patents. The patents describe how to implement fast-forward and rewind functions in digital video streams, among other things.
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Telecommunications giant AT&amp;T and Microsoft took a patent battle to the US Supreme Court Wednesday, in a case that has wide implications for US firms doing business abroad.
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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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SEATTLE -- Microsoft Corp. on Thursday lost the first of six patent lawsuits brought by Paris-based telecom equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent, and a federal district court jury set damages at $1.5 billion.
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(InfoWorld) - Alcatel has accused Microsoft of infringing seven of its U.S. patents. The patents describe how to implement fast-forward and rewind functions in digital video streams, among other things. The French networking equipment manufacturer filed two suits with the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas on Friday, asking the court to rule that Microsoft wilfully infringed on the patents. Through its local subsidiary, Alcatel USA Resources of Plano, Texas, the company is seeking an end to the infringement, treble damages, and payment of interest charges and legal costs. Alcatel representatives could not immediately say which Microsoft products are alleged to infringe on Alcatel's patents. Microsoft representatives in Europe referred questions to their colleagues in the U.S. The first suit concerns three patents: numbers 6,339,830 and 6,874,090, both entitled "Deterministic User Authentication Service for Communication Network," and number 6,661,799, entitled "Method And Apparatus for Facilitating Peer-to-Peer Application Communication." The other covers four patents: number 6,823,390, "Method Of Setting Up Data Communication With A Communication Means And Furthermore Program Modules And Means Therefor;" number 6,112,226, "Method And Apparatus For Concurrently Encoding And Tagging Digital Information For Allowing Non-Sequential Access During Playback;" number 5,864,682, "Method and Apparatus for Frame Accurate Access of Digital Audio-Visual Information," and number 5,659,539, "Method and Apparatus for Frame Accurate Access of Digital Audio-Visual Information." Patent number 5,864,682 describes how to implement functions such as fast forward, rewind and jumping to a specific point within a digital video stream. Microsoft's Internet television platform, Microsoft TV IPTV Edition, includes a digital video recorder with such functions. Microsoft worked with Alcatel to develop the platform. Microsoft also faces a patent lawsuit from Lucent Technologies, which Alcatel is in the process of buying.Â Lucent sued MicrosoftÂ in March, claiming that the Xbox 360 games console's ability to play MPEG-2 video files infringed on its patent number 5,227,878, "Adaptive Coding and Decoding of Frames and Fields of Video."
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A U.S. federal judge dismissed  Alcatel-Lucent's  patent claim against Microsoft  Corp.  over technology that converts speech into text,  the two companies said on Friday.
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A judge in a San Diego court late Thursday dismissed one of several patent claims Alcatel-LucentÂ has made against Microsoft in several high-profile cases against the vendor, but that does not mean the software company is out of the woods yet.
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Europeâs second-highest court today upheld a ruling that found the software company abused its dominance in computer operating systems.
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HELSINKI/LONDON  - Nokia  and wireless  technology firm InterDigital  each declared victory in  a court decision on Friday over patents related to the UMTS  third-generation (3G) mobile phone standard.
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In the first of a series of patent disputes regarding its claims to rights to technologies used in MP3 audio codecs, French telecommunications firm Alcatel-Lucent -- which now owns the IP first conceived by Bell Laboratories -- was awarded $1.5 billion in a jury verdict against Microsoft in a federal district court in Seattle this afternoon.
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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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Alcatel  shareholders on  Thursday approved the French telecoms equipment provider's  all-share acquisition of U.S. rival Lucent , putting an  end to weeks of debates about the deal's merits.
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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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The European Union's second-highest court on Monday dismissed Microsoft Corp.'s appeal against an EU antitrust order that ordered it to share communications code with rivals and sell a copy of Windows without Media Player.
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The European Union's second highest court dismisses the software giant's appeal against an anti-trust order
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Microsoft Corp. on Thursday lost the first of six patent lawsuits brought by Paris-based telecom equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent, and a federal district court jury set damages at $1.5 billion.