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Vincent Padois, head tutor at the Pierre and Marie Curie University who teaches robotics and is babysitting the Paris ICub, makes a demonstration with ICub robot, a ?hybrid embodied cognitive system for a humanoid robot" about 1 metre (3.2 feet) high, at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris September 4, 2009. Six versions of ICub exist in laboratories across Europe, where scientists are painstakingly tweaking its electronic brain to make it capable of learning, just like a human child and hoping it will learn how to adapt its behaviour to changing circumstances, offering new insights into the development of human consciousness. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer

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    Jury rules for Alcatel in Microsoft patent case

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    Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer at the Software 2007 conference in Santa Clara. Microsoft Corp said on Friday a U.S. jury awarded Alcatel-Lucent $367.4 million in damages after finding that the company had violated two patents related to the user interface in its Windows operating system. REUTERS/Lou Dematteis/Microsoft Handout

    SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) said on Friday a U.S. jury awarded Alcatel-Lucent (ALUA.PA) $367.4 million in damages after finding that the company had violated two patents related to the user interface in its Windows operating system.

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    Microsoft, which will seek to have the verdict overturned, said Alcatel-Lucent was seeking $1.5 billion in damages related to the four patents named in the case. Microsoft said the jury found that Microsoft did not infringe on Alcatel's video decoding technology patent.

    The fourth patent in the lawsuit was asserted only against Dell Inc (DELL.O), which was found not to have infringed, according to Microsoft.

    (Reporting by Daisuke Wakabayashi; Editing by Gary Hill)
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