"The US District Court of Eastern Texas has granted an injunction to prevent Microsoft from selling copies of Word because it infringes a patent owned by another company.
"The long-running court case was brought by Canadian software firm i4i which won $200m in damages from Microsoft when a jury found it had willfully infringed a patent relating to XML custom formatting." http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/12/texas_oulaws_word/ John -- John McCreesh - Marketing Project Lead - OpenOffice.org Developers - join us! see http://council.openoffice.org/developers.html On Wed, August 12, 2009 11:43, Alex Fisher wrote: > Found the Australian application. It was lodged in Australia on 27th May, > 2003. I'm going to investigate a little further about how one goes about > notifying prior art (won't really help if the patent has been granted in > the > us, Australia will probably just rubber stamp it). > >> > Cor Nouws wrote: >> > > Hi JÃŒrgen, >> > > >> > > Juergen Schmidt wrote (12-8-2009 7:25) >> > > >> > >> The FLatXML filter is as example part of the SDK since years. I >> don't >> > >> know exactly and have to check it but i assume it is part since the >> > >> beginning of the SDK. >> > >> [...] >> > > >> > > And that was when? >> > >> > May 2003 (see the old cvs repo) when i have checked in the filter in >> the >> > SDK. >> >> OK, if my memory serves me right, that was about 2 years before MS >> applied >> for their patent (there needs to be a proper check, but IIRC they >> applied >> in 2005 or thereabouts). I'll see if I still have the PDF of the >> application somewhere. >> >> I believe the US Patent office has a bad habit of not checking for, or >> ignoring notifications of, prior art. From the reading I've done, the >> "SOP" >> is to grant the patent and *then* fight about prior art. >> >> > Juergen >> > >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > -- > Alex Fisher > > Co-Lead, CD-ROM Project > > OpenOffice.org Marketing > Community Contact > Australia/New Zealand > > > http://distribution.openoffice.org/cdrom/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
