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Court reverses Microsoft patent-infringement ruling
A US federal court on reversed an earlier ruling that Microsoft's product-activation technology infringed on another company's patent, overturning a $388m verdict in the case.
A US federal court on Tuesday reversed an earlier ruling that Microsoft's product-activation technology infringed on another company's patent, overturning a $388m verdict in the case.
In a ruling on Tuesday, the court vacated the earlier decision and decided the Uniloc case in Microsoft's favor.
Microsoft initially won a summary judgment ruling, which would have ended the case in its favor, but Uniloc appealed that ruling and a federal appeals court last year ruled that the case needed to go to trial with regard to two counts.
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