The US District Court in San Diego, California found that Microsoft violated two of Alcatel Lucent patents — and hit the company with a heavy fine.

Originally, the suit filed by Alcatel Lucent sought $1.5 billion in damages that related to four specific patents related to video decoding technology. The jury in the case found that Microsoft did not infringe on two of the four technology patents.

The patents that Microsoft was found to be in violation of included two patents that were part of an audio user interface applications developed by Alcatel Lucent.

Dell was also named in this suit as infringing on technology included in the fourth patent suit.

Dell was found not to have infringed.

After the suit, Tom Burt, Microsoft corporate vice president and deputy general counsel gave the following statement, “We will move immediately to have the two verdicts against Microsoft overturned. We feel confident the verdicts will be overturned, just as the court overturned a verdict last year by a San Diego jury,”

Alcatel-Lucent spokeswoman Mary Ward states that the company was pleased with the decision of the judge.