Microsoft banned from selling Word
Aug 12, 2009, 16:49 (10 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols)
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"Judge Leonard Davis, of the U.S. District Court for
the Eastern District of Texas, has issued an injunction (PDF Link)
that "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 been sued by i4i, a collaborative content
solution and technology company. Its founder, Michel Vulpe, owned a
patent covering a way of reading XML (Extended Markup Language)
documents. XML is the basis of Microsoft's controversial Open XML
document formats. The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District
of Texas is infamous for supporting patent lawsuits and
fast-tracking them. In intellectual property law circles, this
Court has become known as "A Haven for Patent Pirates.""
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