NCR Loses Trial Over Web-Based Way to Program Sales Machines

NCR should pay a lump sum of $13.2 million for infringing a New York company’s patents for a web-based system used by small businesses to handle sales, a federal jury said in Waco, Texas said.

• CloudOfChange claimed NCR’s Silver point-of-sale system infringes patents for ways to more easily input the information displayed on the screen without having to do it manually for each machine
  • The technology developed by the company’s founders “forever changed the way that merchants do business,” CloudOfChange lawyers told jurors in opening arguments
  • CloudOfChange said it was entitled to at least $20 million in damages
• NCR, based ...