Microsoft settles patent suit for $1 million, plus a Google “bonus”
24 11 2013Some days $30 million seems like a lot of money, and other days it’s just a bit of a letdown. Vringo is a once-upon-a-time ringtone company that’s now basically a holding company for search patents dating back to the Lycos days, and it used those patents to sue Google. In November, a federal jury found that the patents were infringed, but Google should pay just $30 million, far less than the nearly $700 million it was seeking.
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