DirecTV loses.DirecTV loses: Finisar Corp., which makes fiber-optic equipment for computer networks, won a $78.9 million verdict in a patent infringement patent infringement n. the manufacture and/or use of an invention or improvement for which someone else owns a patent issued by the government, without obtaining permission of the owner of the patent by contract, license or waiver. lawsuit lawsuit: see procedure; tort. against El Segundo-based satellite-television provider DirecTV Group Inc. The information transmission patent in dispute addresses ways to transmit To send data over a communications line. See transfer. and broadcast digital information to a wide base of subscribers. The method was invented by Sunnyvale-based Finisar co-founder Frank Levinson, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the company. The verdict was handed down in a federal court in Texas. |
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