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		joelrunyon on Jan 29, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Court: Google infringed patents, must pay 1.36 per... Just hundreds of millions? Is that only going forward or is it retroactive? If it's the latter, I'd expect that number to be much, much higher.

magicalist on Jan 29, 2014 [–]

It's only retroactive back to 2012 and the patent expires in 2016.

dclara on Jan 29, 2014 | [–]

I was wondering Google started to use Adwords from 2012? But I heard about re-targeting in 2012 though. It is said Google knew it from 2005, but didn't buy it or failed to buy it. Not sure. Interesting story.

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