September 5, 2003

Jury Orders Microsoft to Pay $520-Million to U. of California and Its Partner

By VINCENT KIERNAN

A federal jury in Chicago found in August that the Microsoft Corporation had violated a controversial patent on Web-browser technology. The jury ordered the company to pay $520.6-million to the patent's owner, the University of California, and to a private software company.

Jurors found that Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser infringed on a browser technology invented by Michael D. Doyle in 1993 while he was a researcher at the University of California at San Francisco. The jury

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