As expected MS have had a temporary stay placed on the injunction that would of "forced" the removal of WORD from the retail shelves of the USA.
This means many lawyers will get large fat payouts, until either MS win or pay out a license fee plus a big fine.
Either way the patent system in the US is still a mess and needs sorting out.
clicky
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| Quote: In August 2009, a judge ordered Microsoft to stop selling Word, its flagship word processing software and one of the main components of the Microsoft Office System. i4i sued Microsoft in March 2007 claiming that Microsoft violated its 1998 patent (No. 5,787,449) for a document system that "eliminated the need for manually embedded formatting codes." I4i Chairman Loudon Owen said last month that he would like to see a version of Word come out without the technology in question. "The injunction is not saying there is no more Word for the world," Owen said. "That is not our intention and that would not be a sensible remedy." | |
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