Microsoft’s won another key courtroom victory in its landmark patent case against Google’s Motorola Mobility division.

A federal jury in Seattle late Wednesday found that Motorola failed to license its standard essential patents related to the H.264 video standard and the 802.11 wireless standard on FRAND (fair, reasonable and nondiscriminatory) terms in breach of its industry obligation to do so. And it awarded Microsoft about $14.5 million in damages for Motorola’s misstep.

The ruling from the first stage of the case, which found that Microsoft should pay only $1.8 million a year in licensing fees for the patents Motorola was demanding $4 billion for, it’s a precedent-setting victory and embarrassing to Google.

Clearly, the patent value Google thought it was buying from Motorola was not as strong as it first thought. Microsoft seems to be doing really well from licensing agreements over patents with many android phone manufacturers.