Microsoft Word $300M Patent Case
U.S. District Court Judge Leonard Davis has ordered Microsoft to pay nearly $300M in damages and interest to Canadian company i4i. i4i has a patent for a document system that relies on XML (extensible markup language) custom formatting and Microsoft infringed it when they started selling versions of Word from 2007 onwards. Microsoft famously introduced the XML file formats in Word 2007 (the 'x' in the .docx file extension stands for XML). [...more]
