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Microsoft Files Emergency Motion in Word Verdict

By jlutz99

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On Friday Microsoft filee an Emergency motion with the US District Court for Eastern Texas to block a ruling that would make it stop selling Word.  Here's an excerpt from an article in WindowsITPro:

Tiny i4i sued Microsoft in 2007 for infringing on its patent for custom XML, charging that several of the software giant's products?including Word 2007 and 2003, .NET, and Windows Vista?contained functionality that was covered by the patent. However, Judge Davis said that only Word "unlawfully infringed" on the i4i patent. He ordered that Microsoft stop selling Word in its current incarnation within 60 days but didn't require the company to amend versions already in the marketplace.

In a bit of courtroom drama, $40 million of the $290 million in fines was directed at Microsoft's lawyers, who the judge said engaged in trial misconduct. They argued that i4i was a "non-practicing patent owner" and that it was thus "improper" that they sue for monetary damages. The judge also admonished a Microsoft lawyer for "equating i4i's infringement case with the current national banking crisis [and] implying that i4i was [like] a banker seeking a 'bailout'."

Read more here: 

Posted by Jon Lutz

Full post as published by FSU College of Law Library Blog on August 17, 2009 (boomark / email).

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