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Microsoft takes appeal to US Supreme Court
Microsoft filed a writ of certiorari in hopes the US Supreme Court will review their appeal against i4i. According to the courts, Microsoft infringed on i4i patent 5787449, a patent that defines a “system and method for the separate manipulation of the architecture and content of a document, particularly for data representation and transformations.” The more »
Microsoft side-steps recent court ruling
Microsoft recently lost a court appeal to a Toronto based company i4i. The terms of this loss stated that Microsoft must stop selling Office 2007 after January 11th because Microsoft infringed on some XML handling algorithm. Luckily, since the appeal began, Microsoft started preparing for the future and began work on making the required fixes more »
Microsoft loses patent appeal, offices everywhere groan
A couple of months ago, the tech community got wind of a patent infringement allegation from a Toronto based company i4i against Microsoft. The basic accusations consisted Microsoft Word’s handling of .xml, .docx, and .docm files were infringing upon a certain XML handling algorithm i4i had patented. However, the buzz died within a few minutes more »
Microsoft Word not banned for now
A few weeks ago we learned that Microsoft was to halt the sale of Word, one of its most popular applications. The ban of Word came from a patent dispute with the Canadian company i4i that holds the patent for “custom XML.” The suit saw Microsoft having to pay damages and halt the sale of more »
Get caught up in technology with InterrupTech: August 17, 2009
Download: iPod/iPhone version (mp4) | Audio version (mp3) Get caught up in a hurry with InterrupTech. You won’t find endless chatter here. We’ve got a timer to move things along. This Week: Paypal charges new fees, forgets to tell anyone Facebook Lite leaked Microsoft’s Zune HD gets official Microsoft Word banned Google revises Google more »
i4i chairman speaks out on Microsoft Word ban
Earlier this week Microsoft was ordered to stop selling Word within 60 days. The decision came down from Texas, a state known for being very pro-patent owner. While Microsoft isn’t saying much more than the fact that it will file for appeals, the Chairman of i4i, the company that filed the patent suit, Loudon Owen more »
Microsoft banned from selling Word in the US
There’s been a lot of crazy suits against Microsoft in the past, but there a chance that this one might take the prize for being possibly the most important, if it goes through. Microsoft has been sued by a Toronto company by the name of i4i who owns a number of patents regarding XML coding more »
