The Supreme Court says that a judge should weigh a variety of factors in determining if an injunction is reasonable. Of course, there's about 0% probability that this will actually stop the sales of Word. Actually, how it's patentable at all is beyond me. How that could be worth $98 per copy of Word is beyond me. Patent, 5,787,449, is about XML editing of a word processed document.
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Of course, when you live by software patents, expect to die by software patents. Mike Masnick pours sauce over the goose : The company, whose Web site advertises that users can "Create and edit XML content in Microsoft Word," helps clients work with XML.
i4i alleges Microsoft willingly violated its 1998 patent (No. You read that right: Microsoft cannot sell Word, the judge ruled. DOCX, or DOCM files containing custom XML. Until that point Microsoft is banned from selling or importing into the US any Word products which can open. The court also ordered Microsoft to hand over $144,060 a day until the date of final judgement of damages. Judge Leonard Davis told Microsoft to pay $40m for the willful infringement, $37m in prejudgement interest and $21,102 per day till final judgement is reached. 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. 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.
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