Is Microsoft on a roll or what?
Trip this: including the forthcoming public debuts of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, Office 2010, Exchange Server, Visual Studio, and Windows Mobile (whatever you think of it), Microsoft has been on a legal roll, with jurists (seemingly) everywhere in these United States tossing out monetary judgments against it.
Again, seemingly willy-nilly.
The latest company with that sinking feeling?
Uniloc.
In a decision that verbally spanks the plaintiffs attorneys in that action, the judge chided them for showing the jury a chart showing Microsoft’s estimated revenues from the product Uniloc’s violated patent was integrated in.
The result? The jury’s award was thrown out.
In an emailed statement from Uniloc’s CEO – no doubt not wanting the public to see the deer-in-the-headlights look almost permanently etched into his visage, expresses his disappointment with the verdict, and vows to appeal.
My advice: “Yo, Brad. Call Microsoft General Counsel Brad Smith – your namesake – tomorrow, and tell him you’d take the vig (10%) of the former award, okay?”
That $388 million?
It’s NEVER coming back!
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