Tuesday, August 7, 2007

Microsoft MP3 fine dropped

A US district court has <A HREF="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6934363.stm">overturned a decision</A> ordering Microsoft to pay phone firm Alcatel-Lucent $1.52B for infringing music patents.

The federal judge in San Diego reversed a jury's decision which had ruled that Microsoft's Media Player software infringed on two Alcatel patents. Both patents regarded how audio was converted into MP3 files.

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