Judge upholds $1.53B verdict vs. Microsoft

Redmond, it’s time to pay up

A federal judge signed off on a $1.53-billion jury verdict in favor of Alcatel-Lucent SA in a digital-music patent dispute against Microsoft Corp. U.S. District Court Judge Rudi M. Brewster in San Diego entered his judgment Monday, concluding Microsoft's Windows Media Player software infringed on patents owned by Lucent Technologies Inc., a U.S. telecommunications equipment maker acquired last year by France-based Alcatel. The damages were awarded by a jury in February.

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