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Posted on June 3, 2024 at 02:43 CDT by Max Stul Oppenheimer • Comment in the Forums

LEGAL BRIEF

By Max Stul Oppenheimer, Esq.

Large patent-infringement verdicts have been in the news recently.

On May 10, a jury awarded IPA Technologies $242 million against Microsoft for infringing US Patent 7,069,560 by incorporating the patented technology into its Cortana digital assistant. Nearly a month earlier, a jury awarded Kove IO $525 million against Amazon for using Kove’s patented technology in its AWS products.

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