Google has lost yet another intellectual property case after a court in Microsoft's home city of Seattle ruled largely in its favour in a patent case.
US District Judge James Robart ruled that Microsoft owed Google just $1.8m (£1.16m) over wireless and video patents - against the $4bn (£2.6bn) that Google had been claiming.
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The Judge ruled that the patents under contention ought to be licensed under "fair and reasonable" terms as they are essential industry patents.
He went further, however, than most such cases in the past by setting a price of half-of-one-cent for video decoding technology and 3.5 cents for the contested wireless technology. Motorola Mobility had demanded a rate of 2.25 per cent of each product's retail price.
Google had made the claim over patents held by its recently acquired Motorola Mobility mobile phone making subsidiary, which it bought in March 2012 for $12.5bn (£8.1bn).
The string of adverse judgments against Motorola, which Google largely acquired in self-defence for its intellectual property and patents, indicates that the search giant grossly overpaid for the company.
The intellectual property spat between the two companies started in 2010 when Microsoft demanded royalties for Motorola's mobile phones based on the Android operating system. Microsoft claims that a number of features in Android contain intellectual property owned by the software giant.
Microsoft has struck licensing agreements with a string of major Android phone makers, including Samsung and HTC, over its Android intellectual property claims.
In response, Motorola counter-sued, arguing that some video-decoding and Wi-Fi technology built into Microsoft's Xbox games console belonged to Motorola.
