Microsoft, Alcatel-Lucent settle 6 patent lawsuits
Microsoft and Alcatel-Lucent settled most of their patent litigation, officials of the couple companies said Tuesday. Financial terms weren’cheek by means of jowl disclosed.
The agreement covers six lawsuits, including single that resulted in the largest patent verdict in U.S. history before it was thrown abroad by a judge. Microsoft will continue its appeal of a $368 million sentence it lost that swelled to $511.6 million in June, the companies said.
The companies have been fighting since 2002 when Lucent, in consequence a stand-alone concern, began demanding royalties from Microsoft customers Gateway and Dell over features in the Microsoft Windows operating theory. A federal jury in San Diego in one case awarded Alcatel $1.52 billion — the largest evident judgment ever — over digital minstrelsy technology.
“We reached a settlement with Microsoft that is satisfactory to both parties,” Alcatel spokeswoman Mary Ward said. “We are pleased to boor this matter behind us.”
The agreement covers suits in federal courts in San Diego; Wilmington, Del.; and Marshall, Texas, plus two upon the body appeal, said Microsoft spokesman David Bowermaster.
“This is a mutually beneficial agreement that closes the book on several distracting legal disputes with Alcatel-Lucent,” Microsoft Deputy General Counsel Tom Burt before-mentioned in a statement.
As for the case being appealed, Burt said Microsoft continues to convinced the patent “is invalid, that it is not infringed and that the damages award is legally unsupportable.”
The pending case involves patents owned by Paris-based Alcatel for touch-screen form entry and the use of a stylus.
Gateway, now part of Acer, settled its part of the case under the jurisdiction any trials began. The case against Dell ended with the Microsoft settlement, Ward uttered.
The case against Microsoft’s Media Player from hand to hand digital music involved the MP3 digital-audio standard. A U.S. appeals court in September uttered the trial judge was reform to cast in a winding direction without the $1.52 billion verdict.
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