Microsoft has been ordered to stop selling Microsoft Word, which is its word processor that is included with MS Office. It was found that the software had violated i4i Inc’s patent on “manipulating a document’s content and architecture separately,” or in other words, the ability to open documents containing custom XML. In addition to not being able to sell Word any longer, Microsoft also has to pay $240 million dollars in damages to i4i.
Frankly this doesn’t surprise me all that much, I am sure Microsoft still has software that violates many patents but none of course which have been banned from sales. Microsoft have appealed and a higher court will probably overrule this.
More details about what custom xml here [ZDNet]
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