University wins huge patent payout

Carnegie Mellon University has been awarded US$1.17 billion by a US federal jury in Pittsburgh in a unanimous verdict that found Marvell Technology had sold billions of semiconductors using technology developed at the university without a licence.

The award on Wednesday, one of the largest in a patent infringement case, comes after a US$1 billion verdict awarded to Apple this summer over its smartphone design.

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