On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 5:42 AM, John McCreesh <[email protected]> wrote:
> "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 > Interesting - according to press outlets this injunction is limited to Work when used to manipulate XML, .DOCX, or DOCM files containing custom XML. Looking at the patent listing *http://tinyurl.com/n3j6td it would seem, to me, even more of a concern with regard to ODF structured files. Drew *
