Court in Texas enjoins Microsoft from selling Word...

LovingSticky · 08-12-09, 11:12 AM

http://www.reuters.com/article/marke...0090812?rpc=44

BANGALORE, Aug 12 (Reuters) - A U.S. federal court ruled that Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) would have to pay more than $290 million in damages to Canadian software firm i4i Ltd for infringing a patent.

Toronto-based i4i, a privately held maker of software for manipulating documents, had claimed in a 2007 suit that Microsoft knowingly infringed one of its patents in its Word processing application and its Vista operating system.

Microsoft said it planned to appeal.

"We believe the evidence clearly demonstrated that we do not infringe and that the i4i patent is invalid," Microsoft spokesman Kevin Kutz said. "We will appeal the verdict."

The final judgment from the U.S. District Court followed a jury verdict issued in favor of i4i on May 20. [ID:nN20530462].

The judgment also permanently enjoins Microsoft from selling any products that can open a .XML, .DOCX or .DOCM file containing custom XML.

08-12-09, 11:40 AM

lol wtf. MS should just move to Mexico. I bet the pipe would play a different tune then.

LovingSticky · 08-12-09, 12:27 PM

The patent itself is extremely vauge: Method and system for manipulating the architecture and the content of a document separately from each other
http://tinyurl.com/n3j6td

It could be used to attack pretty much any system (including OpenOffice, probably also HTML/CSS).

08-12-09, 01:08 PM

So what's next? That they created an OS?

I'm no MS fanboi, but this is getting ridiculous.

08-12-09, 11:12 AM	#1
LovingSticky plenty of work, no games Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 559	Court in Texas enjoins Microsoft from selling Word... http://www.reuters.com/article/marke...0090812?rpc=44 BANGALORE, Aug 12 (Reuters) - A U.S. federal court ruled that Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) would have to pay more than $290 million in damages to Canadian software firm i4i Ltd for infringing a patent. Toronto-based i4i, a privately held maker of software for manipulating documents, had claimed in a 2007 suit that Microsoft knowingly infringed one of its patents in its Word processing application and its Vista operating system. Microsoft said it planned to appeal. "We believe the evidence clearly demonstrated that we do not infringe and that the i4i patent is invalid," Microsoft spokesman Kevin Kutz said. "We will appeal the verdict." The final judgment from the U.S. District Court followed a jury verdict issued in favor of i4i on May 20. [ID:nN20530462]. The judgment also permanently enjoins Microsoft from selling any products that can open a .XML, .DOCX or .DOCM file containing custom XML. __________________ Q9550@3.4 + Asus P5Q Premium + 16GB RAM + 2xVelociraptor 300GB + 4xWD Black 1TB RAID-5 on Adaptec 5805 + PoV GTX580 + Dell 3008WFP + Windows 7 x64 Xbox 360 Elite + Kinect + Onkyo receiver + Acoustic Energy Aelite 1/3/center speakers + 46" FullHD Samsung TV

08-12-09, 11:40 AM	#2
PeterJensen Guest Posts: n/a	Re: Court in Texas enjoins Microsoft from selling Word... lol wtf. MS should just move to Mexico. I bet the pipe would play a different tune then.

08-12-09, 12:27 PM	#3
LovingSticky plenty of work, no games Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 559	Re: Court in Texas enjoins Microsoft from selling Word... The patent itself is extremely vauge: Method and system for manipulating the architecture and the content of a document separately from each other http://tinyurl.com/n3j6td It could be used to attack pretty much any system (including OpenOffice, probably also HTML/CSS). __________________ Q9550@3.4 + Asus P5Q Premium + 16GB RAM + 2xVelociraptor 300GB + 4xWD Black 1TB RAID-5 on Adaptec 5805 + PoV GTX580 + Dell 3008WFP + Windows 7 x64 Xbox 360 Elite + Kinect + Onkyo receiver + Acoustic Energy Aelite 1/3/center speakers + 46" FullHD Samsung TV

08-12-09, 01:08 PM	#4
grey_1 Guest Posts: n/a	Re: Court in Texas enjoins Microsoft from selling Word... So what's next? That they created an OS? I'm no MS fanboi, but this is getting ridiculous.