Aussie inventor settles with Microsoft in patent dispute

http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/business-it/aussie-inventor-settles-with-microsoft-in-patent-dispute-20120315-1v5zc.html

• Ric Richardson, the Australian “man in a van” who has been fighting Microsoft in an eight-year legal battle has settled with the software giant out of court in a deal that could potentially net hundreds of millions of dollars.
• …the software giant to pay compensation of $US388 million…The verdict was overturned five months later.
• “I was in it because the right thing needed to be done,” he said.