Jury orders Google to pay $20m in patent damages

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Jury orders Google to pay $20m in patent damages

February 15 2017
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An inventor and the estate of his late partner have been awarded $20m by an Eastern District of Texas jury for Google infringing three patents through its Chrome browser, in a case on remand from the Federal Circuit

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