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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A U.S. judge ruled that Google Inc.'s (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile, Research) 3D modeling software, which gives Web users an astronaut's view of the earth and allows them to zoom down to street level, does not infringe the patent of a rival.

A week after Microsoft was ordered to hand over $1.5bn 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.

SEATTLE (Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge dismissed Alcatel-Lucent's (ALU.PA: Quote, Profile, Research)(ALU.N: Quote, Profile, Research) patent claim against Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) over technology that converts speech into text, the two companies said on Friday.

TOKYO (Reuters) - When Canon Inc. (7751.T: Quote, Profile, Research) was sued by a small, money-losing U.S. technology firm two years ago, the dispute was over a patent license that had cost the Japanese electronics giant a one-time payment of $5.6 million.