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Microsoft to Stop Selling Microsoft Office Word from Jan 11, Jan 2010
24 Dec 2009
Microsoft issued a patch for its Word software to comply with a court ruling that it infringed on patents relating to the use of XML or extensible markup language in its flagship word processing software.
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit had ordered Microsoft to stop selling Word programs containing the infringing code from Jan 11, 2010. It also upheld jury-imposed damages of $290 million.
The ruling came in an appeal by Microsoft against a Texas jury verdict last August that found Microsoft had violated patents owned by Canadian software company i4i Inc.
The patch was made available to computer makers to install on new machines preloaded with the Word software and strips Word and other Office programs of custom XML editing capabilities which is used by companies to link their data to Word documents.
The patent stolen by Microsoft was filed by i4i filed in 1998. It pertains to the use of technology that can open documents using the XML computer programming language. The Toronto company said Microsoft stole this technology when it created Word 2003 and Word 2007 software.
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microsoft, office 2007, ms word, i4i inc
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