Microsoft will possibly be paying damages amounting to $75 million for patent infringement in Korea. In a Supreme Court ruling last week, judges denied Microsoft's request to invalidate patents obtained by Professor Lee Keung-Hae of the Hankuk Aviation University in 1997. Representing Lee Keung-Hae, P&IB is suing Microsoft for using in its Office suite the patented program in question that enables automatic translation between English and Korean.

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