Jury Orders Microsoft to Pay $520 Million

Dyre Straits · Aug 11, 2003, 06:19 PM

CHICAGO - A federal jury awarded a Chicago-based software company and the University of California more than $520 million in damages Monday after finding that Microsoft Corp.'s popular Internet Explorer browser infringed on a patent.

Microsoft attorney Andy Culbert said that the jury's finding would be appealed.

The jury could have awarded as much as $1.2 billion to the university and Eolas Technologies Inc. of Chicago.

"We are very satisfied," said Eolas attorney Martin R. Lueck. "It shows the jury system works. Patents need to be respected regardless of the size and the market power of the company involved."

By MIKE ROBINSON, Associated Press Writer

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Sharkims · Aug 11, 2003, 07:07 PM

That makes me sad... Microsoft has always infringed on patents. They should have sued for $300,000,000 taken Microsoft's payoff offer and walked away. Instead, they have decided to go to war, a war that proven from the past. No one can win. Microsoft will keep fighting till the end of time.