BUSINESS BRIEFING / COMPUTERS
TIMES WIRE REPORTS
Hewlett-Packard Co. was ordered by a judge to pay Cornell University $53.5 million for infringing the school’s patent for data processing, less than a third the amount decided on by a federal jury in May.
The jury had ordered Hewlett-Packard to pay Cornell $184 million after finding that the Palo Alto, Calif., company used Cornell technology to increase the speed of its processors without permission from the university or its research foundation, which claim ownership of the patent.
U.S. District Judge Randall Rader said Cornell didn’t prove it was entitled to 0.8% of the $23-billion royalty base.
