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Satellite operator will pay TiVo $104 million in damages.

According to The Inquirer Microsoft has lost the long running Alcatel-Lucent patent case. The US International Trade Commission has ruled against Microsoft in the case which accused Alcatel-Lucent of violating four Microsoft patents concerning IP-based phone software.

The ITC concluded that "there is no violation of section 337" which refers to the infringement of intellectual property, despite Paul Luckern, the administrative law judge in the case originally ruling that Alcatel-Lucent did infringe one of the patents concerned.

Microsoft is naturally a little miffed, with spokesman David...

Two of the nation's leading civil liberties organizations and a new organization dedicated to the abolition of software patents have all filed amicus briefs in a patent case that could give the courts an opportunity to revisit the issue of software and business method patents.

Sten Corp. (Nasdaq: STEN) 44% HIGHER; continues to rise today after strong earnings reported yesterday. Sten normally trades about 6,000 times a day, but today the Company's stock has already traded hands about 250,000 times.

Tessera Technologies (Nasdaq: TSRA) 40% LOWER; today announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has rejected the Company's re-examination claim.

Consequently, this means that Siliconware (Nasdaq: SPIL) has won the re-examination patent case. Shares have been halted.

Obagi Medical Products, Inc.