A $358 million judgment leveled against Microsoft in a patent infringement case is overturned by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Alcatel-Lucent had argued that Microsoft Outlook violated its patent for touch-screen form entry technology. Alcatel-Lucent was awarded $1.52 billion in February 2007 in a previous case involving the two companies, but that ruling was eventually overturned.
– Microsoft
finally received some good news in one of its high-profile legal battles on
Sept. 11, with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington
overturning a $358 million judgment leveled against the software maker in a
patent infringement case involving Alcatel-Lucent.
The…