The US company Google is being accused of infringing four anti-malware patents on technologies that are used in the Google Chrome.
Google is dedicated to improving its Chrome browser, which gets new improvements and security updates, but it looks like the search giant may have been a little excited in the process.
A Texas district court ordered the company to pay 20 million U.S. $ in damages for infringing four technology patents that are used in the program.
The 2012 lawsuit cites patents registered in the United States that describe an anti-malware security system for browsers, and the indictment came from two US software engineers, Alfonso Cioffi and Allen Rozman.
Google even tried to appeal the ruling to the US Supreme Court, but the request was rejected.
The two engineers' lawsuit in the US court was opened in 2013, but was originally closed a year after a judge ruled that the prosecution would not stand before a jury. The engineers took the case to a federal court, which took legal action against Google after concluding that Cioffi and Rozman were just trying to protect their work.
This is not the first time that Google encounters legal difficulties because of browser technology. At 2012, the company had problems with patents allegedly infringed on Chrome for mobile phones. Now the ruling states that Google will give patent holders $ 20 million in damages in the form of royalties.
