‘Let us keep selling Word!’ — Microsoft
p2pnet news view | Products:- A week ago, following a lawsuit lodged by Canada’s i4i, Microsoft was ordered to stop selling its famous Word application.
Now it wants the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to let it to keep Word o the shelves, “as it fights an unfavorable patent ruling,” says the Associated Press.
It claims it and the public, “will both suffer if Word goes off the market while the company devises a workaround,” says the story.
The Toronto company won the “permanent injunction” and damages and interest totalling more than $290 million, said McKool Smith, the company’s US lawyers.
Microsoft infringed i4i patent US Patent No. 5,787,499 issued in 1998 to cover software designed to manipulate “document architecture and content,” said Toronto’s i4i, stating:
“The software covered by the patent removed the need for individual, manually embedded command codes to control text formatting in electronic documents.”
Judge Leonard Davis, “ruled that Microsoft should pay i4i an additional $40 million for its willful infringement of the i4i patent,” said company lawyers, adding:
“Microsoft also was ordered to pay slightly more than $37 million in prejudgment interest, including an additional $21,102 per day until a final judgment is reached in the case. The court also ordered Microsoft to pay $144,060 per day until the date of final judgment for post-verdict damages. [The] permanent injunction prohibits Microsoft from selling or importing to the United States any Microsoft Word products that have the capability of opening .XML, .DOCX or DOCM files (XML files) containing custom XML.”
Microsoft had 60 days to comply.
Microsoft has already been accused of infringing the patent.
– P2Pnet
- Loulith Galenzoga
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