i think we used the wrong lawyers !!

June 10, 2011

Microsoft told to pay $272m in patent case

http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/microsoft-told-to-pay-272m-in-patent-case/story-e6frfku0-1226072702118

THE US Supreme Court says Microsoft Corp must pay a $272.6 million patent infringement judgment awarded to a small Toronto software company in a patent lawsuit.

The high court yesterday refused to throw out the judgment against the world's largest software maker.

Toronto-based i4i sued Microsoft in 2007, saying it owned the technology behind a tool used in Microsoft Word. The technology in question gave Word 2003 and Word 2007 users an improved way to edit XML, which is computer code that tells the program how to interpret and display the contents of a document.

The lower courts say Microsoft willfully infringed on the patent, and ordered the software maker to pay i4i $272.6 million and stop selling versions of Word containing the infringing technology. The high court upheld that judgment.