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ikeb writes "Supreme Court Spurns Microsoft Patent Appeal

By Gregg Keizer, TechWeb News

The Supreme Court Monday refused to hear an appeal by Microsoft in a long-running patent infringement case where a jury has awarded a California company and university more than half a billion dollars in damages.

The case, which involved alleged patent infringement by Microsoft's Internet Explorer, had been bounced to the Supreme Court by the Redmond, Wash.-based developer, which argued that the damage award should be based only on domestic, not global, sales. Microsoft's contention was that basing the award on worldwide sales was an expansion of the scope of U.S. patents.

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Posted on Tuesday, 01 November 2005 @ 08:49:36 UTC by Paul (1902 reads)
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