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images/news/microsoft.jpg Microsoft Corp., the world’s largest software maker, was told by a federal jury to pay $388 million to a Singapore company for infringing a patented invention used to deter software piracy.
The jury in Providence, Rhode Island, deliberated less than two days before finding today that Microsoft violated a patent owned by Uniloc Singapore Private Ltd. and Uniloc USA Inc. Uniloc claimed Microsoft wrongfully used its security technology to earn billions of dollars.
Uniloc’s lawsuit, filed in October 2003, targeted Microsoft’s Windows XP operating system and some Office programs. Microsoft, based in Redmond, Washington, argued that it used a different method for registering software and that Uniloc’s patent was obvious.
“We are very disappointed in the jury verdict,” David Bowermaster, a Microsoft spokesman, said in an e-mail. “We believe that we do not infringe, that the patent is invalid and that this award of damages is legally and factually unsupported. We will ask the court to overturn the verdict.”
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The jury in Providence, Rhode Island, deliberated less than two days before finding today that Microsoft violated a patent owned by Uniloc Singapore Private Ltd. and Uniloc USA Inc. Uniloc claimed Microsoft wrongfully used its security technology to earn billions of dollars.
Uniloc’s lawsuit, filed in October 2003, targeted Microsoft’s Windows XP operating system and some Office programs. Microsoft, based in Redmond, Washington, argued that it used a different method for registering software and that Uniloc’s patent was obvious.
“We are very disappointed in the jury verdict,” David Bowermaster, a Microsoft spokesman, said in an e-mail. “We believe that we do not infringe, that the patent is invalid and that this award of damages is legally and factually unsupported. We will ask the court to overturn the verdict.”
Read more @Bloomberg
