Judge saves Microsoft $1.5B
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A San Diego judge overturned Monday a record-breaking $1.52 billion patent-infringement judgment against Microsoft. The decision reverses a jury determination that Microsoft infringed on Alcatel-Lucent's MP3 patents.
U.S. District Court Judge Rudi M. Brewster ruled that, of the two patents in question, Microsoft properly obtained a license to use the technology covered by one patent and that there was no proof of infringement on the second patent.
"The court finds that the jury's verdict was against the clear weight of the evidence," Brewster wrote in his 43-page decision.