Google ordered to pay $20M for ripping off anti-malware patents in Chrome

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by Sindy Cator on February 14, 2017 at 12:45 pm

Google is tremendously dedicated to improving its Chrome browser, but it appears the search engine giant might’ve gotten a little carried away in the process – and now it has to pay the piper. A District Court in Texas has ordered the electronics titan to spew out $20 million in damages for infringing four anti-malware patents in Chrome. The verdict was delivered on Friday following a jury trial in the city of Marshall. The decision comes as a result of a lawsuit filed by Alfonso Cioffi and the now-diseased Lucent engineer Allen Rozman dating back to 2013. Back in 2014, a…