HP ORDERED TO PAY $184million FOR PATENT INFRINGMENT

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HP ordered to pay Cornell $184 mln in patent case
SAN
FRANCISCO, June 08 – A U.S. jury has ordered Hewlett-Packard Co  to pay
$184 million to Cornell University for patent infringment on processor
technology used to boost computing speed, a lawyer for the university
said on Tuesday.The verdict was handed down on Friday in a federal
court presided over by Judge Randall Raider in Syracuse, New York, said
Edward Poplawski, a partner at law firm Sidley Austin.A spokesman for
HP was not immediately available for comment.The university filed the
lawsuit in December 2001 and asked for $575 million in damages.Damages
covered HP servers and workstations that used the technology and were
built between 1996 and 2006, when the patent expired, Poplawski said.

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June 5, 2008 at 11:33 AM