{"id":9172,"date":"2009-08-13T00:19:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T22:19:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-08-13T00:19:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-12T22:19:00","slug":"ms-to-appeal-ruling-that-it-may-not-sell-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/9172-ms-to-appeal-ruling-that-it-may-not-sell-word.html","title":{"rendered":"MS to appeal ruling that it may not sell Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US District Court judge Leonard Davis ruled on Tuesday that Word violates an XML patent held by a Canadian company, Toronto-based i4i, and ordered Microsoft to pay more than 290 million dollars in damages and interest.<\/p>\n<p>He also issued an injunction, which takes effect in 60 days, that would bar Microsoft from selling Word products that include the patented technology.<\/p>\n<p>A Microsoft spokesperson, Kevin Kutz, said the Redmond, Washington-based company planned to appeal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are disappointed by the court?s ruling,&#8221; Kutz said in a statement. &#8220;We believe the evidence clearly demonstrated that we do not infringe and that the i4i patent is invalid.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will appeal the verdict.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft was accused by i4i of infringing on a 1998 XML patent in its Word 2003 and Word 2007 programs.<\/p>\n<p>Word uses the XML language to open .XML, .DOCX, and .DOCM files.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=186682\"><strong>Microsoft banned from selling Word<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; fair?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft said Wednesday it plans to appeal a ruling by a Texas judge that would ban the US software giant from selling its popular Word program in the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}