Microsoft hit with $1.52 billion patent suit damages
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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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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 JUDGE IS ordering Microsoft to pay $112.5 million to attorneys who successfully sued the software maker for monopolizing a segment of California&#39;s market.
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By Saul Hansell  Microsoft has been ordered by a U.S. jury to pay $1.52 billion in a patent dispute over the MP3 digital file format, the technology at the heart of the digital music boom.  If upheld on appeal, it would be the largest patent judgment on record.
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Microsoft  pays $536m to software maker Novell to resolve a lawsuit over alleged anti-competitive practices.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- A judge is ordering Microsoft Corp. to pay $112.5 million to attorneys who successfully sued the software maker for monopolizing a segment of California&#39;s market.
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icrosoft, which has agreed to pay $1.8 billion to settle consumer antitrust suits, has been sued by California munciplaties, including Los Angeles and San Francisco, over claims that the company overcharged them for its Windows software.
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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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An appeals court should throw out a half-billion-dollar patent infringement judgment against Microsoft because a lower court failed to recognize that the Web browsing patent was based on a technology that was not invented by the company awarded the money
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A group of California cities and counties on Friday filed a class action lawsuit against Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O), saying the world's largest software maker overcharged them for software.
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Microsoft Corp. has filed 26 lawsuits accusing U.S. companies of selling pirated software, the latest move in its ramped-up efforts to boost sales by cracking down on illegal copies.
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Lawyers in a California class action suit against Microsoft will get less than half the payout they had hoped for. A judge in San Francisco ruled that the attorneys will collect only $112.
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Microsoft gas been ordered by a jury to pay $1.5 billion in damages to Lucent-Alcatel for patent infringement.
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Software company VirnetX filed suit against Microsoft Thursday, accusing the Redmond company of infringing on two of its patents regarding virtual private networking.
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Sep. 17, 2004. A judge is ordering the Microsoft to pay $112.5 million to attorneys who successfully sued the software maker for monopolizing a segment of California&#39;s market.
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A San Francisco judge ordered Microsoft Corp.  to pay lawyers involved in its &#36;1.1 billion class action settlement &#36;100 million in legal fees, less than half of the original fees they requested, company officials said on Thursday.
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A US court rules Microsoft must pay phone equipment firm Alcatel-Lucent $1.52bn (Â£777m) for infringing patents.