Submission + - US court tells Microsoft told to stop selling Word (arnnet.com.au)
oranghutan writes: A judge in a court in Texas has given Microsoft 60 days to comply with an order to stop selling Word products in their existing state after a patent infringement suit filed by i4i.
According to the injunction Microsoft is forbidden from selling Word products that let people create XML documents, which both the 2003 and 2007 versions let you do.
An analyst quoted in the article — Michael Cherry from Directions — said:
"It's going to take a long time for this kind of thing to get sorted out."
Basically, most don't believe the injunction will stop Word being sold as there are ways of getting around it. However, in early 2009 a jury in the Texas court ordered Microsoft to pay i4i US$200 million for infringing the patent.
http://www.arnnet.com.au/article/314620/injunction_microsoft_word_unlikely_halt_sales