Google owes US$338mil in patent case


A federal jury found that Google’s Chromecast and other devices infringe patents owned by Touchstream Technologies related to streaming videos from one screen to another. — Reuters

NEW YORK: Alphabet’s Google violated a software developer’s patent rights with its remote-streaming technology and must pay US$338.7mil (RM1.5bil) in damages, a federal jury in Waco, Texas decides.

The jury found that Google’s Chromecast and other devices infringe patents owned by Touchstream Technologies related to streaming videos from one screen to another.

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