Microsoft loses patent suit; barred from selling MS Word
In an east Texas courtroom (where else!), Judge Leonard Davis has ruled Microsoft's implementation of XML, DOCX and DOCM violates a patent from i4i, a Canadian company. The Judge ordered Microsoft to pay $290 million in damages, as well as stop selling Microsoft Word within 60 days. Microsoft is appealing the ruling, and could be forced to reissue Word with a workaround.
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