Alcatel-Lucent: Microsoft told to pay big fines in patent infringement case

Software giant Microsoft has been told by the courts to pay Alcatel-Lucent $368 million as part of patent infringement fines.

Microsoft was found guilty of infringing two of their owned patents related to touchscreen form entry and use of a stylus on computers.

Alcatel-Lucent had originally demanded about $1.75 billion for violations of these patents. Dell too was accused in the lawsuit.

Dell too was found guilty and was told to pay $51,000.

Microsoft Deputy General Counsel Tom Burt said in a statement on this latest ruling against them: “We do not believe the jury’s verdict against Microsoft on the two user interface patents is supported by the facts or the law. We feel confident the verdicts will be overturned, just as the court overturned a verdict last year by a San Diego jury in Alcatel-Lucent’s favor in a dispute with Microsoft concerning widely used MP3 technology.”

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