The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to consider an appeal by software maker Microsoft in a dispute over whether the company should be liable for damages overseas for infringing a software patent owned by AT&T.
The high court granted Microsoft's petition to review an appeals court ruling that held AT&T could seek royalties based on the foreign manufacture and sale of infringing software products.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said the world's largest software maker was liable for the unauthorized distribution of codec technology, used to compress speech signals into data, in copies of Windows overseas.
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