Google Loses Bid to Overturn Low-Cost Patent Licenses To Microsoft

Google originally asked for $4 billion. Courts only give them $1.8 million. Google appeals. In the process, Microsoft is awarded $14.5 million for breach of contract. Appeals court rules against Google. Considering we haven't even calculated attorney fees yest, Google probably should have just taken a pass on this one.

After a 2012 trial, U.S. District Judge James Robart in Seattle said the appropriate royalty rate was $1.8 million, far less than Motorola’s demand for as much as $4 billion a year. A jury later found Motorola in breach of contract. Google appealed the verdict and the royalty rate to the 9th Circuit.

They wanted more money so they had to at least try.

I am glad to see that the system is at least somewhat working toward the better of the people here. I think there are certain things that people have a patent for that is too vague or too wide spread that they try to get a crap load of money from just for that reason. So it is nice to see that court decide it should be a low cost, and then give them some of their money back for what they have paid in the past at the higher rates.