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Article: Microsoft dodges 388-million-dollar hit in patent case.
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- Times of Oman (Muscat, Oman)
- Article date:
- October 1, 2009
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SAN FRANCISCO: A US judge has ruled that Microsoft does not have to pay a record-setting 388 million dollars in damages, saying a jury came to the wrong decision in the patent case.
District Court Judge William Smith nullified the jury verdict on Tuesday in a ruling that said Microsoft did not infringe on the Uniloc technology at issue and that the damage award was based on misleading evidence presented at trial.
"There is serious error in the verdict for many reasons," Smith wrote in a 66-page ruling detailing the reasoning behind his decision to vacate a jury verdict handed down in April.
While Microsoft praised the decision by the Rhode ...