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Day: August 13, 2009

Microsoft can’t Sell MS Word in USA

August 13, 2009 by Marius Bancila

This Tuesday a Texas court ruled that Microsoft can no longer sell Microsoft Word in USA because of a patent infringement (U.S. Patent No. 5,787,449). Canadian based company i4i accused Microsoft of willingly violating this patent on a method for reading XML. Microsoft was found guilty and ruled to pay $240 millions, plus other fines … Read more

Categories Software Tags Microsoft, Office, patent, Word 1 Comment

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