He said that Indiana schools could use his discovery without charge, but that the state and he would share the profits from royalties charged to other schools who wished to adopt a value of 3.2 for π.
The royalties charged by record companies see to that.
"Today's decision concludes that the royalties that Microsoft charged for the information license prior to 22 October 2007, were unreasonable," the EU executive said in a press release Wednesday.
Napster has now agreed to start charging people who want to swap music files between their computers, and to pay the music companies a royalty.MP3.com already charges for music delivered over the Internet.
The suit doesn't go so far as seeking to block use of its patents, instead looking to collect on damages related to the royalty fees it charges for licenses on the technologies – some of which were acquired through purchase from Nortel, after that company went bankrupt.
Cupertino has also filed a billion-dollar royalty lawsuit accusing Qualcomm of charging for patents "they have nothing to do with".
Cupertino also filed a billion-dollar royalty lawsuit against the chipmaker at the same time, accusing it of charging for patents "they have nothing to do with".
The search engine giant is using Ireland as a conduit for European revenues but in turn the Irish subsidiary is being charged royalties for its intellectual property – use of the brand and technology such as Google's algorithms.
It is owned by the MPEG-LA consortium, which doesn't charge royalties for its use today, but currently plans to start enforcing royalties in 2015.
