Microsoft Asks Court to Lift Injunction to Sell Word Programs

August 20, 2009

Texas - Software giant Microsoft Corp. has filed an emergency motion to lift the court ruling that orders the company to pull out its Microsoft Word software from the market for violating the patent rights of a Canadian technology firm.

On August 12, US District Court Federal Judge Leonard Davis ordered Microsoft to pull out the infringed products and pay i4i with $290 million as damages for patent infringement.

Davis also banned the US Technology giant in selling Word programs designed to open XML file which contains custom XML.

i4i said that Microsoft Word 2003 and Word 2007 have violated its patent rights.

The judge ruled that Microsoft had “willfully infringed” on the patent and had permanently enjoined the company from selling Word 2003 and Word 2007 in the US.

Microsoft filed the motion to ask the court to allow it to sell while the case is on appeal.