{"id":48306,"date":"2024-05-11T08:00:22","date_gmt":"2024-05-11T08:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/11\/microsoft-hit-with-242-million-verdict-in-cortana-patent-lawsuit\/"},"modified":"2024-05-11T08:00:22","modified_gmt":"2024-05-11T08:00:22","slug":"microsoft-hit-with-242-million-verdict-in-cortana-patent-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/11\/microsoft-hit-with-242-million-verdict-in-cortana-patent-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Hit With $242 Million Verdict in Cortana Patent Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Microsoft<\/a> must pay patent owner IPA Technologies $242 million, a federal jury in Delaware said on Friday after determining that Microsoft’s Cortana<\/a> virtual-assistant software infringed an IPA patent.<\/p>\n

The jury agreed with IPA after a week-long trial that Microsoft’s voice-recognition technology violates IPA’s patent rights in computer-communications software.<\/p>\n

IPA is a subsidiary of patent-licensing company Wi-LAN, which is jointly owned by Canadian technology company Quarterhill and two investment firms. It bought the patent and others from SRI International’s Siri<\/a> Inc, which Apple acquired in 2010 and whose technology it used in its Siri virtual assistant.<\/p>\n

“We remain confident that Microsoft never infringed on IPA’s patents and will appeal,” a Microsoft spokesperson said.<\/p>\n

Representatives for IPA and Wi-LAN did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the verdict.<\/p>\n

IPA filed the lawsuit in 2018, accusing Microsoft of infringing patents related to personal digital assistants and voice-based data navigation.<\/p>\n

The case was later narrowed to concern one IPA patent. Microsoft argued that it does not infringe and that the patent is invalid.<\/p>\n

IPA has also sued Google<\/a> and Amazon<\/a> over its patents. Amazon defeated IPA’s lawsuit in 2021, and the Google case is still ongoing.<\/p>\n

\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2024<\/em><\/p>\n\n

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