Google ordered to pay $5 million in Linux patent infringement suit

By Christopher trout posted Apr 21 2011 10:43 PM an East Texas, jury is one relatively small computer company patent troll recently called a pretty hefty settlement in a patent infringement suit, the Google, Yahoo, Amazon, AOL and MySpace as a defendant. The jury awarded $ 5 million for a patent on the Linux kernel in the software behind Google Server found bedrock of computer technologies LLC. The relevant patent is described as a "method and apparatus for information store and retrieve with a hashing technique with external chaining and on-the-fly removing expired data." It seems Google is the first of the defendant against a judgment, but we have a feeling of this decision could have a precedent. Of course, no violation complaint would complete without a healthy portion how - and when you consider that the decision comes from a District Court, can almost guarantee that this case is no exception. Expect you stay not the big guys down for the count, you?

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