Microsoft Loses Word Patent Appeal
It looks like Microsoft has lost its appeal in that MS Word patent case. Microsoft has agreed to change its code and will have to pay the $200 million in damages previously awarded by the courts.
It looks like Microsoft has lost its appeal in that MS Word patent case. Microsoft has agreed to change its code and will have to pay the $200 million in damages previously awarded by the courts.
Microsoft lost a patent case involving a company called I4i in May, after a jury ruled that Microsoft infringed one of i4i's patents with a custom XML feature found in Word. In August an injunction was placed on sales of Word pending the appeal, which did not go in Microsoft's favor Tuesday.