Slashdot | Microsoft Found Guilty of Patent Infringement:
Microsoft Found Guilty of Patent InfringementPosted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 08, @10:28PM
from the pay-up dept.
Spy der Mann writes “Microsoft has been found guilty of patent infringement and ordered to pay a Guatamalan inventor Carlos Armando Amado almost $9m in damages. The US District Court of Central California court ruled that Microsoft had infringed on his intellectual property and ordered it to pay him $8.96m. The patent in question is a method to transfer data between Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Access using a single spreadsheet.
I really just don’t know what to say. That’s sooo reprehensible. Come on, guys…. you can do better than that.