The Government has offered Australia's three mobile operators, and vividwireless, renewal of their existing spectrum allocated on 15 year licences in the late 90s and early 2000s at set prices, while the Government expects to rake in $3 billion.
In
one of the biggest damages awards for software patent infringement in
history, the world's largest software company Microsoft has been hit
with a US$388 million fine. However, Microsoft is not expected to take
the decision laying down.
Irvine, California-based Uniloc holds a patent for anti-piracy software
which is able to identify physical hardware by a device's "unique
fingerprints".
Uniloc alleges that Microsoft infringes its anti-piracy software patent during its product activation process.
The
Redmond software giant may have thought that it had put the matter to
rest last year when on 7 August 2008 a US District Court dismissed the
Uniloc patent infringement suit lodged in 2003.
However, Uniloc
and its representative law firm Mintz Levin claimed a "major victory"
later in the same month when the Federal Circuit reversed the judgment
and ordered the matter back to the District Court for trial.
The Federal Circuit concluded that the District Court made a mistake in
its judgment by failing to take into account Microsoft’s admission that
the same algorithms at issue were used in its product activation system.
This time in a trial by jury, Microsoft was found to have "wilfully"
infringed on the Uniloc patent and was ordered to pay more than the original damages claim.
Microsoft reportedly does not intend to accept the verdict and will lodge an appeal, claiming that the patent is invalid.
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