A federal appeals court bans the sale of Microsoft Word and pay a Canadian software company $290 million for violating the patent.
Toronto base company i4i Inc. sued Microsoft in 2007, saying the it owned the technology behind the tool in Microsoft Word. This technology gives the users as improved way of editing XML.
“An important step in protecting the property rights of small inventors,” said Michel Vulpe, Founder and co-inventor of i4i Inc, they have please with the decision.
Microsoft is ready for such a judgment and they were prepared to sold the Microsoft Word and Microsoft Office by removing such a feature. Microsoft said it expects that new versions of the product, with the computer code in question removed, will be ready for sale when the injunction begins on Jan. 11 of 2010.
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