Microsoft was ordered to pay $1.5 billion for patent infringement to Alcatel-Lucent in a verdict rendered Thursday. The patents involved in the case deal with converting audio into digital MP3 files on a computer. Microsoft claims to have paid $16 million to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, a German research company, to acquire the rights to the technology. Microsoft claims that Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft is the rightful and internationally recognized licensor of the technology used and nothing is owed to Alcatel-Lucent.
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