The US court ruled that Chrome did not infringe the patent, and Google did not have to pay $2000.
Beijing time on April 19 morning news, According to reports, The United States Texas court previously ruled that Google patent infringement, Google compensation of 20 million US dollars, Patent and Chrome highly related. Google appealed the ruling and has now persuaded the US Court of Appeals to invalidate three anti-malware patents.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held that Alfonso Cioffi and Allen Rozman's patents were invalid because they contained inventions not included in earlier versions of the patents. Google spokesman José Castañeda said the company was grateful for the court's ruling.
In 2013, the daughters of Alfonso Cioffi and Allen Rozman (deceased) sued Google in Texas, arguing that Chrome's anti-malware features infringed on technology invented by the two engineers, patented to prevent malware from accessing critical computer documents.
A jury in 2017 found Google guilty of copyright infringement and demanded $20 million in damages and future copyright payments. At the time, plaintiffs 'lawyers said Google would pay about $7 million a year for the rights for the next nine years.
On Tuesday, however, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled that all patents were invalid. The court held that the three patents involved were reprints of previous anti-malware patents, and that the new patents mentioned specific technology for WEB browsers that was not mentioned in the original patents.
