Alcatel's $1.5 billion MP3 patent payout denied on appeal

arstechnica.com — The US Appeals Court for the Federal Circuit handed down its ruling in the ongoing MP3 patent lawsuit between Alcatel-Lucent and Microsoft late last week, and the court's decision doesn't favor Alcatel. The good news, for those of you who don't particularly enjoy watching lawyers get rich while patent infringement lawsuits drag on for years, .... Sep 29, 2008 View in Crawl 4