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Judge throws out $1.5 billion MP3 patent ruling against Microsoft
Remember back in February when a federal jury found that Microsoft owed Alcatel-Lucent $1.5 billion dollars for violation of 2 MP3-related patents held by that company? Yeah, looks like Microsoft isn't going to have to pay up after all.A federal judge has reversed the decision, after finding that Lucent did not solely own the rights to one of the patents, and that Microsoft had properly licensed that technology from the co-owner of the patent.
And the other patent? Yeah, the judge ruled that Microsoft simply hadn't infringed on that one.
Alctael-Lucent plans to appeal the latest decision. While the lengthy appeals process could get rather expensive, it's not likely to approach $1.5 billion any time soon, so what does the company have to lose, besides face? And some money. And time.
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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Mark said 8:10AM on 8-07-2007
All who hate patent trolls rejoice.
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Donald said 5:58PM on 8-07-2007
Huzzah!
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