Microsoft does not have to pay US$1.5 billion in damages to Alcatel-Lucent, a panel of federal appeals judges has ruled in what may be the last word on a long-running digital music patent lawsuit. In February 2007, a jury in U.S. District Court in San Diego determined Microsoft infringed on two patents that cover the encoding and decoding of audio into the digital MP3 format.
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