Judge approves $1.53 billion jury verdict against M$
 

Media Player infringed Lucent patents

A FEDERAL JUDGE signed off on a $1.53 billion jury verdict against software giant Microsoft yesterday.

The damages were awarded by a jury in February but had to be placed alongside a judgement by US District Court Judge Rudi M. Brewster.

The Vole disputed that Alcatel-Lucent's patents govern its MP3 encoding and decoding tools, and said it licenses the MP3 software used by its Windows Media Player from Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, a German company.

A spokesVole said that it would challenge the ruling now that the US Supreme Court has ruled in its favour in a similar patent lawsuit bought against it by AT&T.



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