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This is just a sample of the content found on this website. Please visit the website to read the entire page. "Recent Posts Full Disclosure Apple MacBook Combines High Art and a Higher Price Starting Tomorrow: No Login, No Comment T-Mobile G1 Arrives in Stores Blogged Down By Politics Stories By Date Full Story Archive Rob on the Web Read Rob's Reviews Rob's Help File Biweekly Web Chats More Tech on post.com Technology News Post I.T. Blog Brian Krebs: Security Fix Blog Mike Musgrove: @Play Video Game Reviews Subscribe to this Blog RSS Feed More Patent Pain Alcatel-Lucent won the tort lottery yesterday when a federal jury in San Diego ordered Microsoft to pay it $1.52 billion. The jury found that the MP3 software in Microsoft's Windows Media Player program violated two Alcatel-Lucent patents that describe ways to store music as compressed digital files. Microsoft can't be happy about this (the company says it will appeal , calling both the verdict and the penalty unjustified). But you shouldn't be either. Alcatel-Lucent's patent payday has all the things that patent-abuse critics hate: * "Submarine" patents, invoked years after a contested invention has hit the market? Check * Claiming ownership of a media format most people use all the time ? Check * A plaintiff that's failed to commercialize its own alleged invention? Check * Extortionate royalty demands? Check But wait--there's more! The bizarre thing about the Alcatel-Lucent verdict is that Microsoft, along with every other company to ma" .... read entire page
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