Alcatel-Lucent sues Microsoft for breaching their MP3 patents and wins. This decision will come expensive to Microsoft because they have to pay an absurd amount of 1.5 billion $ - though they licensed MP3 from German research institute Fraunhofer.
Lessons learned: forget all these emails with their "get rich quickly" receipes. All you have to do is to invest in software patents. You may use six main strategies:

• Be quaggy: invent a "useful machine" that may save the world, heal the sick ones, brings peace on earth.


• The submarine trick: claim as many patents as possible and use dummies to conceal your patent strategy.


• The World Formula Patent: Make your patent specification as complex as possible and create freedom for large-scale interpretation.


• Avoid any definite solution. Be as indefinite as possible.


• Don't use terms that everybody else uses. Be creative and call a keyboard a "haptic device". This will keep your patent undercover and you can strike back when somebody really invents the keyboard.


• Let your machine do everything to virtually solve any problem in the world.

Your main target is to hide your patents until your competitors have created a big market you can profit from. Like a Jack-in-the-box you can pop up and claim your fees.
Further news: Alcatel-Lucent plans to fire more that 830 workers in Germany. Alcatel-Lucent is today's top gainer in Europe, up 2.9 percent. Now you've learned where the money is.