Microsoft Fined $388 Million In Patent Infringement Case By Uniloc

A jury at the U.S. District Court in Rhode Island ruled against Microsoft Corporation in a case filed by anti-piracy software maker Uniloc, Inc against the software giant which alleged that Microsoft infringed on a patent held by them. Uniloc makes software to prevent illegal installations of software on multiple computers.

Microsoft was ordered to pay $388 million to Uniloc who had alleged that Microsoft used their patented technology in it’s software activation methods for Windows XP, Office Xp and Windows Server 2003.

“They’ve been struggling for six years against Microsoft the giant, and finally, justice has prevailed,” Uniloc’s attorney Paul Hayes declared. He is the head of intellectual property patent litigation at Mintz Levin, a Boston firm.

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Microsoft, the largest software maker in the world, plans to appeal the verdict.

“We are very disappointed in the jury verdict,” Microsoft spokesman Jack Evans said in an e-mail. “We believe that we do not infringe, that the patent is invalid and that this award of damages is legally and factually unsupported. We will ask the court to overturn the verdict.”

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