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| Patent Dispute with Alcatel-Lucent Resolved |
| Wednesday, 25 January 2012 |
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Long-running infringement litigation involving audio and video patents between Alcatel-Lucent and Microsoft may finally be at an end, as both companies asked U.S. District Judge Marilyn Huff in San Diego to grant a joint motion ending all claims in the suit in Jan. 2012. The case was originally filed as an action between Lucent and Gateway in July 2000 claiming Gateway infringed on various technologies patented by Lucent, including audio and video codecs, position-sensing styluses, and touch-screen form-entry technology on Windows-based PCs sold by Gateway.
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