A federal jury in California has awarded nearly $9 million to an inventor who sued Microsoft in March 2003, claiming the software maker infringed on a patent he received in 1994 for software linking the company's Excel spreadsheet and Access database programs. Carlos Amado developed the program in 1990 and offered to sell it to Microsoft two years later, but the company declined, according to Morrison & Foerster, which represented Amado.
June 07, 2005 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
A federal jury in California has slapped Microsoft Corp. with a nearly $9 million judgment in a patent infringement lawsuit filed by a Guatemalan inventor.
Carlos Amado, 50, sued the Redmond-based software maker in March 2003, claiming Microsoft infringed on a patent he received in 1994 for software linking the company’s Excel spreadsheet and Access database programs.
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