Microsoft has been granted an opportunity to carry its appeal for damages against telecom giant AT&T to the US Supreme Court. In a ruling the US Supreme Court said that it would hear the software giant's appeal over damages relating to a patent dispute with AT&T. Microsoft has claimed that AT&T's patent for converting speech into computer code as an infringement of its own technology. A lower court had ruled that AT&T could seek royalties from the foreign sales of Microsoft's Windows programme that infringed the AT&T patent. Microsoft stands to gain millions if it wins the appeal. The Supreme Court will now have to decide whether or not Microsoft is liable to pay for its overseas sales.
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