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On Thursday, it seems, the long legal history has ended , the participants of which were the telecommunications giant Alcatel-Lucent and the information technology giant Microsoft. A federal appeals court in Washington ruled that Microsoft did not violate Alcatel-Lucent patents and, therefore, should not pay the last $ 1.5 billion fine required. The decision was made after considering the appeal filed by the plaintiff in the San District Court. Diego, who supported the Windows manufacturer in August 2007.
Alcatel-Lucent, which has already absorbed a whole pleiad of companies-forefathers of the telecom industry (such as, for example, Bell Labs), demanded justice in relation to the standard Windows Media Player. The fact is that the key audio coding-decoding technology of mp3, which, of course, is used by the player, was patented jointly by Lucent and Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, the commercial branch of the famous Fraunhofer Institute. Microsoft licensed the technology from the latter for $ 16 million.
Lucent also found a violation of one special patent from the same field. In addition, the company presented the allegations of violation of another 13 patents to the largest manufacturers of computer equipment-partners of Redmond (Dell and GateWay - among them). The IT giant in its own time, in fact, stood up for them, not waiting for when all the charms of case law hit him in the event of an opponent's victory.
“The decision of the Federal Court is a victory for consumers of digital music and a triumph of common sense in the patent system,” said Microsoft Chief Strategic Lawyer Tom Burt.
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Alcatel-Lucent spokeswoman Mary Lou Ambrus said that the decision of the court disappointed them. Now the company will carefully think about their next steps.
Alcatel-Lucent, which has already absorbed a whole pleiad of companies-forefathers of the telecom industry (such as, for example, Bell Labs), demanded justice in relation to the standard Windows Media Player. The fact is that the key audio coding-decoding technology of mp3, which, of course, is used by the player, was patented jointly by Lucent and Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, the commercial branch of the famous Fraunhofer Institute. Microsoft licensed the technology from the latter for $ 16 million.
Lucent also found a violation of one special patent from the same field. In addition, the company presented the allegations of violation of another 13 patents to the largest manufacturers of computer equipment-partners of Redmond (Dell and GateWay - among them). The IT giant in its own time, in fact, stood up for them, not waiting for when all the charms of case law hit him in the event of an opponent's victory.
“The decision of the Federal Court is a victory for consumers of digital music and a triumph of common sense in the patent system,” said Microsoft Chief Strategic Lawyer Tom Burt.
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Alcatel-Lucent spokeswoman Mary Lou Ambrus said that the decision of the court disappointed them. Now the company will carefully think about their next steps.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/41053/
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