Microsoft Trial Misconduct Cost $40 Million 231
SpuriousLogic writes "The judge who banned Microsoft from selling its Word document program in the US due to a patent violation tacked an additional $40 million onto a jury's $200 million verdict because the software maker's lawyers engaged in trial misconduct, court records reveal. In a written ruling, Judge Leonard Davis, of US District Court for Eastern Texas, chastised Microsoft's attorneys for repeatedly misrepresenting the law in presentations to jurors.'Throughout the course of trial Microsoft's trial counsel persisted in arguing that it was somehow improper for a non-practicing patent owner to sue for money damages,' Davis wrote. The judge cited a particular incident in which a Microsoft lawyer compared plaintiff i4i, Inc. to banks that sought bailout money from the federal government under the Troubled Asset Relief Program. 'He further persisted in improperly trying to equate i4i's infringement case with the current national banking crisis implying that i4i was a banker seeking a "bailout,"' Davis said."
MvP (Score:5, Funny)
Microsoft... vs... patent trolls.. who do I hate??
Re:MvP (Score:5, Funny)
Re:MvP (Score:5, Funny)
Microsoft... vs... patent trolls.. who do I hate??
You are perfectly within your rights to hate both. Doing so has the great advantage that you really don't need to aim carefully, should you decide to be sure from orbit...
Re:First post? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Damnit! I'm torn! (Score:1, Funny)
"If Chewbacca does not make sense, you MUST ACQUIT!!"