It was an expensive day—perhaps even an expensive week—for Google Inc. last Thursday. A federal jury decided that the search engine giant owes $85 million in damages to SimpleAir for infringing on their patent, according to a recent statement. The trial and the separate damage ruling were both presided over by Judge Rodney Gilstrap for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.
“The jury understood that Google profits tremendously from its infringing use of our invention...
