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Microsoft today said that retailers can continue to sell unmodified versions of Word 2007, even though a court order that required the company to remove custom XML technology from the software took effect Monday.Retailers who had already purchased…
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In May 2009, a court also ordered Microsoft to pay developer i4i nearly $300 million in damages, court costs and interest for allegedly violating the Canadian company's custom XML patent.Microsoft has posted updates for both Word 2003 and Word…
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The case, which began in 2007, pitted Canadian software developer i4i against Microsoft when the former accused the latter of illegally using its XML editing technology in Word.In May 2009, a Texas jury said Microsoft violated i4i's patent, and…
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Instead, said the judges, the only evidence entered into the record was Microsoft's five-month timetable, which the 11 January, 2010, deadline allows.Canadian developer i4i first sued Microsoft in 2007, accusing the US company of illegally using…
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Just a day before a crucial hearing in the patent infringement case between Canadian developer i4i and Microsoft, i4i's top executive said that the injunction that forbids Microsoft from selling Word could be reinstated.
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Microsoft marketed Canadian developer i4i's XML software to potential customers even as it planned to drive the small firm out of business by infringing its patent, according to court documents filed with an appeals court.