U.S. Patent No. 5,490,216—which is owned by California-based Uniloc and purports to cover “software activation,” a type of antipiracy system widely used to register and control copies of software—was nearly one of the most valuable patents to make its way to court last year.
In April 2009, Uniloc won a $388 million jury infringement verdict against Microsoft in federal district court in Rhode Island. Unfortunately for Uniloc, the judge who oversaw the trial tossed out the award five months later, ruling that the software giant had not infringed the patent and that the jury had no basis for its verdict.
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