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Today’s Cache | Battles over patents

Battles over intellectual property are common in the tech world. The company, which would go on to merge with France’s Alcatel three years later, claimed that the MP3 capabilities of the Windows Media Player infringed on its IP related MP3 and MPEG encoding and compression technologies. A jury found that Microsoft infringed on Alcatel-Lucent’s technology, and awarded $1.52 billion in damages in 2007. But a jury found Apple to have violated WiLAN’s patents, and awarded the latter $145 million in damages. Two years later, in February, Apple convinced the Court of Appeals to dismiss the multi-million-dollar award on several grounds, including issues with the patent-licensing firm’s expert testimony.

The Hindu

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