Microsoft hit with &#36;1.52B in damages
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Microsoft Corp. must pay $1.52 billion in damages to telecommunications equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent SA for violating two patents related to digital music, a federal jury ruled Thursday.
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An appeals court should throw out a $500m (Â£260m) patent infringement judgement against Microsoft because a lower court failed to recognise that the patent was not invented by the company awarded the money, a Microsoft lawyer claimed yesterday.
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(InfoWorld) - MicrosoftÂ must pay $1.5 billion in damages to Lucent-Alcatel for infringing on patents for MP3 encoding and decoding technology, a U.S. jury said Thursday. Lucent-Alcatel, which was then Lucent Technologies, first filed suit in 2003 against Microsoft customers DellÂ and GatewayÂ for infringing on 15 patented technologies it said were being used in Microsoft's Windows Media Player in its Windows client OS. Microsoft filed a countersuit in a U.S. District Court in San Diego against Lucent-Alcatel to discourage additional legal action against its customers. A judge threw out the cases on two of the patents and separated the remaining 13 patent infringement disputes into six separate groups. Thursday's decision marks the end of the first trial on those groups of patents; five jury trials remain pending, Microsoft said. In a statement from its public relations firm, Microsoft spoke out against the court's decision and said it plans to appeal if necessary. "We think this verdict is completely unsupported by the law or the facts," the company said in a statement. "Like hundreds of other companies large and small, we believe that we properly licensed MP3 technology from its industry recognized licensor -- Fraunhofer. The damages award seems particularly outrageous when you consider we paid Fraunhofer only $16 million to license this technology." Lucent-Alcatel could not be reached immediately for comment Thursday.
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A European court today upheld a record $689 million antitrust fine against Microsoft, another in a string of defeats for the company's business practices and one which narrows the options in its decade-long battle with continental regulators.
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Microsoft Corp.  said on  Thursday it would take a more than $1 billion charge in the  most recent quarter due to costs for a new extended warranty  program for its Xbox 360 video game console.
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Just days after Microsoft settled outstanding claims regarding Novell Netware with a $536 million cash payout, Novell has filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of Utah seeking unspecified damages for what it says is unfair competition in the productivity applications market. The suit alleges that Microsoft withheld critical technical information from Novell when the company owned WordPerfect.
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A judge is ordering Microsoft Corp. to pay &#36;112.5 million to attorneys who successfully sued the software maker for monopolizing a segment of California's market.
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This fourth priority&#39;s main focus has been improving or obtaining CRM and ERP software for the past year and a half. A San Francisco judge ordered Microsoft to pay lawyers involved in its $1.
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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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Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer each received total compensation of $901,667 in Microsoft Corp.'s 2004 fiscal year, up 4.4 percent from $863,447 one year ago.
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Microsoft has lost its appeal against a record 497m euro fine imposed by the European Commission in a long-running competition dispute. A probe concluded in 2004 that Microsoft was guilty of freezing out rivals in server software and products such as media players.
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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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Microsoft Corp.  eked out a gain in quarterly net profit despite a $1 billion charge to pay for repairs to its Xbox 360 game consoles, and the company slightly raised full-year earnings and revenue forecasts.
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SEATTLE: A San Francisco judge ordered Microsoft Corp to pay lawyers involved in its $1.1 billion class action settlement $100 million in legal fees, less than half of the original fees they requested, company officials said.
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A judge is ordering the Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) to pay $112.5 million to attorneys who successfully sued the software maker for monopolizing a segment of California's market...
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Microsoft details the compensation paid to its top executives.
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The European Commission will fine  Microsoft  between 200 million (&#36;255 million) and 300  million euros on Wednesday to punish it for failing to carry  out antitrust sanctions, sources familiar with the situation  said on Tuesday.