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04/01/14 6:11 AM

#538525 RE: Tuff-Stuff #538524

A district judge has ordered Marvell Technology Group (MRVL) to pay almost $1.54B for breaching two hard disk drive patents held by Carnegie Mellon University.The amount is well above the $1.17B that a jury awarded Carnegie in December 2012. The judge, Nora Barry Fischer, increased the payout because she believes that Marvell copied the IP through "known willful infringement."However, Fischer rejected Carnegie's requests for double or triple damages.