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26 Sep, 2008 3:22 pm
... . Brewster, siding with Microsoft, also said the second patent is jointly owned by both Alcatel-Lucent and Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, a German company that Microsoft paid $16 million in ... a statement Thursday. The MP3 patent claims were just two of 15
made by Lucent Technologies Inc. in 2003 against PC makers Gateway Inc. and Dell Inc ... the patents were closely tied to its Windows operating
system. France's Alcatel bought Lucent in 2006. "We're disappointed with the court's decision on the
matter. We'll ...
6 May 8:00 am
... integration process and how to maximize the chances of success in a cross-border merger. The presentation begins with an overview of Alcatel-Lucent and of the global consolidation of the telecommunications equipment and services market, which was
the primary business rationale for the merger. Mr. Camus then goes on to address the specific challenges involved in the Alcatel-Lucent transaction, as a "merger of equals" and a cross-border business combination, in a technology-driven
industry. ...
22 Feb, 2007 6:04 pm
... today, February 22, 2007: A US jury found Microsoft guilty of infringing Alcatel-Lucent patents
on Thursday and ordered the software giant to pay the French-US ... arguments supporting our view, and we are pleased with the court's decision," Alcatel-Lucent spokeswoman Mary Lou Ambrus said in a prepared statement before declining ... Thursday centered on
MP3 audio technology used in the Windows Media Player software. Alcatel-Lucent argued in court that
technology used to encode and decode digital audio ...
27 Sep, 2008 4:50 am
Of Microsoft's victory over Alcatel/Lucent, the Boston Globe had a quote: The ruling is "a victory
for consumers of digital music and a triumph for common sense in the patent system," Tom Burt, deputy general counsel for Redmond ... by law a patentee may only assign title to an
entire patent; a transfer of less is only a license." The CAFC noted the issue in the Lucent case was determining ownership of the patent in
the first instance. The CAFC brought up the case of Israel Bio-Engineering, 475 F.3d ...
27 Feb, 2007 1:34 pm
The award was made by a federal jury in San Diego who arrived at the figure, says Microsoft, by multiplying Windows sales and average PC sales prices worldwide since May 2003
Lucent, which was acquired by Alcatel in 2005, had filed patent claims against...(read more)
2 Mar, 2007 3:20 pm
A week after Microsoft was ordered to hand over $1.5 billion in an Alcatel-Lucent MP3 patent dispute,
a federal judge has ruled that the Windows maker did not violate a patent at the heart of a second trial that was set to begin soon. The ruling from the bench by U.S. District Judge
Rudi Brewster in San Diego relates to an Alcatel-Lucent patent covering speech coding technology, the
companies said. Read the article: CNET News.com
20 Mar, 2007 8:20 am
The U.S. International Trade Commission said it agreed to investigate a patent infringement complaint filed by Microsoft Corp. against Alcatel-Lucent. The ITC said it had agreed to institute an investigation based on a complaint that Microsoft filed
in February, which seeks to ban imports of some Alcatel-Lucent products that allegedly infringe
several Microsoft patents, the ITC said. Read the article: Reuters
7 Aug, 2007 5:09 am
... a record $1.5 billion jury award in an MP3 patent dispute between Microsoft and Alcatel-Lucent.
We posted vociferously about that case in February under the title Patent Insanity in the USA Continues as Jury Awards Record MP3 Verdict. We were one of the few voices on the internet
... patent decision Bloomberg News, Jeff St.Onge and Crayton Harrison, Microsoft Judge Negates Alcatel-Lucent MP3 Patent Win (Update3) Although this case does not involve the KSR obviousness ...
21 May, 2008 10:10 am
Microsoft lost a lawsuit that had accused Alcatel-Lucent of violating patents used in business
telephone networks, the U.S. International Trade Commission said. Microsoft had accused Alcatel-Lucent of infringing four patents for software in a system that integrates telephones with computers for calls, messages and videoconferences. Read the
article: Reuters
13 Apr 11:07 pm
Bloomberg reported: An Alcatel-Lucent SA patent that resulted in a $358 million jury verdict against
Microsoft Corp. was rejected [in a re-exam Office Action] by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office after the agency took a second look at ... in which Microsoft, the world's biggest
software maker, also was told to pay another $10.4 million over a second Alcatel-Lucent patent. The
total jury award has swelled with interest to more than $511 million. See also http://ipbiz. ...
29 Jan, 2008 9:00 am
Alcatel-Lucent lost a key ruling in Microsoft's U.S. trade complaint over patents for a system that
integrates telephones and computers for voice calls, e-mail and video conferencing. U.S. International Trade Commission Judge Paul Luckern said Alcatel's OmniPCX Enterprise system infringes on a Microsoft patent and recommends that it be barred from the United States. Read the article:
SiliconValley.com
22 Feb, 2007 8:32 am
... a federal jury determined on Feb. 22. From Toronto Daily News: Microsoft now must pay $1.5 billion in damages to telecommunications equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent SA who said the patents in question govern the conversion of audio into the digital MP3 file format
on personal computers. "We think this verdict is completely unsupported by the law or the facts," said Tom Burt, a Microsoft deputy general counsel, "We ...
24 Feb, 2007 3:35 am
As many of the readers of this Blog may have noticed from the mass media, a U.S. court recently has awarded Alcatel-Lucent a sum of USD 1.5bn to be paid by Microsoft as a compensation for MP3-related patent infringement. However, I am inclined not to be overly surprised if
the sum as awarded last week should be reduced substantially upon Microsoft's appeal or as the outcome of some sort of
20 May, 2007 4:08 am
A courier has apparently lost a disk containing personal information on up to 200,000 employees, including dates of birth and social security numbers. In the meantime, the company will
not be using couriers to transport employee information. See: Alcatel-Lucent Trying to Find Lost
Disk.
29 Jul, 2008 12:00 pm
Alcatel-Lucent, one of the world's largest suppliers of telecommunications equipment, on Tuesday
posted a second-quarter net loss of 1.1 billion euros and said its chief executive, Patricia F. Russo, and its chairman, Serge Tchuruk, would step down by the end of the year. The net
loss, equivalent to $1.7 billion, was vastly larger than analysts had [...]
2 Sep, 2008 12:01 pm
Alcatel-Lucent moved Tuesday to right its struggling business and smooth its internal conflicts,
appointing two veteran European business leaders to its top posts. The company said Philippe Camus, a former co-chief executive of European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company, would
take over Oct. 1 as nonexecutive chairman, while Ben Verwaayen, a former chief executive of the [...]
25 Sep, 2008 4:45 pm
Microsoft Corp. convinced a federal appeals court that it shouldn't have to pay $1.5 billion in damages to Alcatel-Lucent SA, after a lower court threw out the jury's record verdict over the MP3 digital-music standard. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
affirmed the lower court's decision that one of the two patents wasn't infringed and that Microsoft, the world's biggest software maker, had a valid license for the second one. Read the
article: Bloomberg
29 Jul, 2008 2:54 pm
More than two years ago, DealBook looked at the proposed trans-Altantic "merger" of Alcatel and Lucent Technologies and concluded that Patricia F. Russo, Lucent's chief executive at the time, wouldn't last long
as head of the merged firm. "Ms. Russo will not be the chief executive of the combined company in 36 months," DealBook wrote [...]
5 Jun, 2007 10:15 am
Avaya has agreed to be acquired by two private equity firms for $8.2 billion, but it's not a done deal yet. As with many recent buyout agreements, terms call for a go-shop period during
which the target company can solicit better offers. Although go-shops haven't tended to smoke out rival bidders (Triad Hospitals is an [...]
17 Dec, 2008 3:01 am
In reporting the settlement on Dec. 16, the IHT noted: Financial terms were not disclosed. The agreement covers six lawsuits, including one that resulted in the largest patent verdict
in U.S. history before it was thrown out by a judge. Microsoft will continue its appeal of a $368 million verdict it lost that swelled to $511.6 million in June, the companies said.
(...) The case against Microsoft's Media Player over digital music involved the MP3 digital-audio standard. A U.S. appeals court [ ...
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