Micorsoft Forbidden to Sell Microsoft Word

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You heard right - this is no anti-monopoly-give-others-a-chance move. This is an outright demand for a complete stop. And not just by some schlub - this baby's court ordered.

I stumbled upon this bit of news a few days ago but I think it took until now to really enter into my skull. But no, it's real. U.S. District Court Judge Leonard Davis of the Eastern District of Texas really and truly ruled against Microsoft, ordering them not only to pay $290,000,000 in damages to a company called i4i but also from selling MSWord at all.

The story is that The Little Guy, i4i of Toronto, filed a patent on a particular method for reading XML, a markup language. The patent number was 5,787,449. The year it was filed was 1998. In March of 2007, i4i filed a claim that Microsoft willingly violated their patent. Recently the honorable Judge Davis decided to agree with them, filing an injunction against Microsoft involving any .XML, .DOCX or .DOCM files that rely on the custom XML. He also awarded the damages mentioned above at the same time.

Microsoft's line is obviously that they violated nothing and they have appealed this decision. There is no way that MS stops selling Word, and chances are we'll see another blip on the radar when this decision is overturned or a much quieter one when MS pays off i4i to go away.

Does this sound a little bit like Psion and their netbook patent to anyone else? Maybe i4i has a little better of a case - maybe - but we doubt they'll have much more success.

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