Microsoft has vowed to appeal a $367.4 million payment to Alcatel-Lucent after the U.S. District Court jury of San Diego found that handwriting recognition technology in Microsoft's tablet software infringed on pattern recognition patents held by Alcatel-Lucent. Additionally, it stated that some of Microsoft's programs, including the Outlook e-mail application and the Windows Mobile operating system, infringed on an Alcatel-Lucent patent in the way users select calendar dates from a menu. However, MS was found not to have infringed on a video decoding patent related to the way the Windows operating system plays DVDs.
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We do not believe the jury's verdict against Microsoft on the two user interface patents is supported by the facts or the law," said Tom Burt, a deputy general counsel at Microsoft, in a statement. "
We will move immediately to have the two verdicts against Microsoft overturned."
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