Microsoft banned from selling Word
The US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Microsoft took 60 days to comply with a regulation that prohibits Microsoft from selling Word applications in the US that allowed users to create personalized XML documents.
The ruling was issued in response to a patent infringement lawsuit filed by i4i. The most common versions of Word on the market today — Word 2003 and Word 2007 — are banned because they both allow you to create personalized XML documents.
Microsoft said they intend to appeal. However, even if the court ruling comes into force, Microsoft can temporarily cut down the functionality of Word by the time it is resolved.
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According to Michael Cherry, an analyst at the company's development department, a court ruling is unlikely to have any tangible impact on anyone, at least in the near future.
At the same time, i4i spokesman Loudon Owen explained that if the court order comes into force, those who use the custom XML function in Word will have to find other ways to create templates. “I hope they will contact us, because we are the ones who support custom XML,” he said.
According to Owen, the court also ruled that Microsoft will pay another forty million dollars for deliberately infringing the patent and more than thirty seven as interest for the period before the court decision. Given that this year, before imposing a ban on the sale of Word, the court ordered Microsoft to pay i4i 200 million, the total amount of fines reaches $ 290 million.
i4i accused Microsoft of deliberately violating patent law in March 2007. This company received a patent for the method of reading XML files back in 1998.
via pcworld.com
The ruling was issued in response to a patent infringement lawsuit filed by i4i. The most common versions of Word on the market today — Word 2003 and Word 2007 — are banned because they both allow you to create personalized XML documents.
Microsoft said they intend to appeal. However, even if the court ruling comes into force, Microsoft can temporarily cut down the functionality of Word by the time it is resolved.
')
According to Michael Cherry, an analyst at the company's development department, a court ruling is unlikely to have any tangible impact on anyone, at least in the near future.
At the same time, i4i spokesman Loudon Owen explained that if the court order comes into force, those who use the custom XML function in Word will have to find other ways to create templates. “I hope they will contact us, because we are the ones who support custom XML,” he said.
According to Owen, the court also ruled that Microsoft will pay another forty million dollars for deliberately infringing the patent and more than thirty seven as interest for the period before the court decision. Given that this year, before imposing a ban on the sale of Word, the court ordered Microsoft to pay i4i 200 million, the total amount of fines reaches $ 290 million.
i4i accused Microsoft of deliberately violating patent law in March 2007. This company received a patent for the method of reading XML files back in 1998.
via pcworld.com
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