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Microsoft Wins Emergency Stay of Judge?s Ban on Word Product Sales

By jlutz99

From the ABAJournal Law News Now Microsoft Wins Emergency Stay of Judge's Ban on Word Sales.  Here's an excerpt:

A federal appeals court has granted Microsoft's emergency appeal of a Texas federal judge's order that would have banned the computer Goliath from continuing to sell some Word software products next month unless they could be reconfigured to avoid infringing on a Canadian company's patent.

In a ruling late yesterday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit stayed the U.S. District Court order. Meanwhile, a fast-track appeal on the merits continues, with oral arguments scheduled for Sept. 23, reports Computerworld.

Both Dell and Hewlett Packard filed friend-of-the-court briefs in the appeal, arguing that the Word revisions required by U.S. District Court Judge Leonard Davis would also require extensive, time-consuming work on their own part to reconfigure personal computers that use Word software.

Read the article online here.  

Posted by Jon Lutz

Full post as published by FSU College of Law Library Blog on September 04, 2009 (boomark / email).