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Microsoft verdict roundup: What does Jackson's ruling mean?
News Microsoft vows to appeal verdict Gates remains confident that Microsoft will prevail and says that Judge Jackson's ruling won't deter his company from its quest to 'innovate' and 'improve peoples' lives.
[April 4, 2000, 10:37]
Monti's verdict on Microsoft - blow by blow
News The guilty verdict delivered to Microsoft by the European Commission on Wednesday contained three specific demands. Issuing the verdict, the EU competition commissioner, Mario Monti, said Microsoft broke EU competition law by "leveraging its near...
[March 24, 2004, 11:30]
Judge upholds patent ruling against Microsoft
News A Chicago federal judge on Wednesday upheld a $512m (£278m) patent verdict against Microsoft that could ultimately force major changes in many of the most common Internet software products. Judge James Zagel said he saw no reason to overturn an...
[January 15, 2004, 7:25]
Microsoft wins reversal of MP3-patent decision
News Microsoft has won a reversal of a $1.52bn (£749m) jury verdict against it for infringing on a patent for MP3 technology held by Alcatel-Lucent. Today's ruling by the judge reversing the jury's $1.52bn verdict against Microsoft is a victory for...
[August 7, 2007, 12:03]
Microsoft hit by $388m patent verdict
News Microsoft on Wednesday was hit with a $388m (£265m) verdict in a long-running patent-infringement case. We are very disappointed in the jury verdict," Microsoft spokesman Jack Evans said in an email. In the suit, Uniloc alleged that Microsoft used...
[April 9, 2009, 9:48]
Standalone IE 6 closer to public beta
News As Microsoft appeals the antitrust verdict related to Internet Explorer, the company is inching toward delivering the first public preview of a standalone, next-generation browser. In the antitrust verdict currently on appeal, Microsoft was found...
[February 28, 2001, 10:02]
Microsoft loses appeal in Office patent spat
News Morrison & Foerster said that on Wednesday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington affirmed a verdict that Microsoft's Office software infringed on a patent held by Carlos Armando Amado.
[June 19, 2006, 9:50]
Court reverses Microsoft patent-infringement ruling
News A US federal court on Tuesday reversed an earlier ruling that Microsoft's product-activation technology infringed on another company's patent, overturning a $388m verdict in the case. We are pleased that the court has vacated the jury verdict and...
[September 30, 2009, 8:22]
Microsoft unworried about European investigation
News The Microsoft verdict has already sparked a political debate as to whether the European Commission should reach also condemn Microsoft thus paving the way for legal action by companies within individual member states.
[April 4, 2000, 16:13]
Microsoft must pay $1.5bn in MP3 patent case
News In a statement, Microsoft deputy general counsel Tom Burt said the software titan believes that the verdict "is completely unsupported by the law or the facts". A federal jury in San Diego has ordered Microsoft to pay $1.5bn to Alcatel-Lucent in a...
[February 23, 2007, 7:52]
Microsoft loses $200m patent violation case
News A Microsoft representative said the company was "disappointed" by the verdict, valued at $200m (£128m), and would seek to have it reversed. Last month, in a separate infringement case brought by Uniloc, Microsoft was hit with a $388 million verdict.
[May 21, 2009, 12:03]
Microsoft draws up whiteboard settlement
News Microsoft has agreed to pay $60m (£33.8m) and to license a plaintiff's whiteboard technology following a somewhat stiffer but not yet finalised jury verdict against the software giant. Microsoft has spent much of the year on the patent defensive...
[December 29, 2003, 7:35]
Patent defeat for Microsoft and Autodesk
News In a verdict reached on 19 April, a jury found that Microsoft and Autodesk had violated Colvin's patents; the companies' subsequent request for a new trial was turned down on Friday. Microsoft is expected to challenge the verdict in the US Court of...
[August 24, 2006, 9:20]
Microsoft offer considered inadequate
News These sources did not rule out the possibility of talks resuming, and the government continued to evaluate the proposal by Microsoft to end the case before Tuesday, when the trial judge has threatened to announce his verdict.
[March 27, 2000, 7:35]
Patent loss creates pro-Microsoft alliances
News To some competitors and partners who have long been chafed by Microsoft's dominance, the verdict in the patent infringement lawsuit by one-man software company Eolas may initially have seemed an overdue victory -- and one that achieved what the US...
[September 26, 2003, 10:25]
Legal experts say Windows XP may cross the line
News If the Appeals Court sends the remedy portion of Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's ruling last year back to the District Court for review, as is widely expected, the DOJ and the state attorneys general will then be able to introduce new evidence...
[June 19, 2001, 10:44]
Legal experts: Win XP crosses the line
News If the Appeals Court sends the remedy portion of Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's ruling last year back to the District Court for review, as is widely expected, the DOJ and the state attorneys general will then be able to introduce new evidence...
[June 19, 2001, 9:03]
Microsoft hit with $521m Explorer fine
News A federal court in Chicago has ruled that Microsoft must pay $521m (£325m) to a Web technology company and the University of California, after finding that the software giant's Internet Explorer infringed on their patents.
[August 12, 2003, 8:45]
Patent critics search for prior art
News While Microsoft seeks to take its prior art claims back to court as part of preliminary moves to appeal the patent verdict, the W3C has bypassed the courts to argue its prior art case to the USPTO itself.
[November 3, 2003, 11:25]
Microsoft ordered to pay millions in patent case
News We do not believe today's verdict will have any impact on our customers," said Microsoft spokeswoman Stacy Drake. A jury in US federal court has found that Microsoft infringed on a Guatemalan inventor's 1994 patent on technology linking the company...
[June 8, 2005, 10:05]
