MerceanCoconut - Slashdot User

Submission + - MS Nailed with $200M MS Word Patent Infringement

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nandemoari

on Thursday May 21, 2009 @04:01PM

nandemoari writes: "Microsoft has been slapped by a heavy hand for including a Canadian company's technology in Microsoft Word. A Texas federal court recently decided that the Redmond-based firm infringed on Toronto-based i4i's XML-based patent. Unfortunately for Microsoft, on Wednesday a Texas judge agreed with i4i's complaint that MS violated the patent through its system for processing Word files via embedded codes that show instructions on how information is presented. Microsoft's not taking the $200 million ruling lying down. According to Microsoft spokesman David Bowermaster, the company will request that the court overturn the order."

Comment Re:No, what it really means is that... (Score 1) 215

by MerceanCoconut on Wednesday September 26, 2007 @02:59PM (#20758657) Attached to: Canadian Copyright Official Dumped Over MPAA Conflict

... while it's clear a conflict of interest has occurred here, at least the government has been forced to remove Ms. Neri as the heritage minister, since it's an apparent violation of ethics laws. Contrast this to, say, the US, where such things are the norm, and are practically expected from elected officials.

Except that Ms. Neri is not an elected official. She was the Director General of Copyright Policy, which means that she actually could have been fired, but instead was reassigned.

WYSIWYG Editor for DocBook DTD Content? 51

Posted by Cliff on Sunday November 24, 2002 @08:21PM from the another-niche-to-fill dept.

Saqib Ali asks: "This week I saw a demo of the Tagless Editor by i4i. The editor is a plugin to Microsoft Word, which can be used to create XML based content. The plugin can handle various custom DTDs. However it can not properly handle the DocBook DTD. I was wondering if there is any WYSIWYG XML editor that can be used to edit DocBook DTD based content? Any ideas?"

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