Tag archive: Tom Burt

A jury has award Alcatel-Lucent $367.4 million in damages, after finding Redmond software giant Microsoft violated two of the company's patents related to date entry and handwriting recognition in tablet computers. The suit is the latest chapter in several long-standing patent dispute between the two companies; in February of last year, a San Diego jury ordered Microsoft to pay Alcatel $1.52 billion for infringing two patents related… Read More

A federal jury in San Diego has ordered Microsoft to pay some $1.52 billion in damages to Alcatel-Lucent SA for violating two patents related to converting audio to the MP3 digital music format on computers. The suit involves MP3 playback technology which has shipped with Windows since 2003. The MP3 compression technology was jointly developed by Germany's Fraunhofer and the former Bell Laboratories, although the first MP3 encoding… Read More

As part of the agreemen, Lindows will abandon the Lindows name and transfer its Web domains to Microsoft. Lindows had recently started calling its products “Linspire” in response to European trademark disputes with Microsoft. From Microsoft's press release: Lindows.com and Microsoft Corp. today jointly announced that a worldwide settlement has been reached in the trademark infringement cases between the two companies.… Read More