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Microsoft to Pay $290M in Patent Ruling

AP
posted: 103 DAYS 5 HOURS AGO
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SEATTLE (Aug 12) - A federal judge in Texas has ordered Microsoft Corp. to stop selling some versions of its Word software in the U.S. within two months.
U.S. District Court Judge Leonard Davis was reaffirming his court's May decision, which found Microsoft's widely used word processing program infringes on a Canadian technology company's patent. The dispute is over the way Word 2003 and Word 2007 encode and display information.
The judge makes exceptions for versions of Word that remove certain custom code before opening a file, leaving the door open for Microsoft to come up with a technical workaround to the injunction.
The judge also has ordered Microsoft to pay $290 million to Toronto-based i4i LLP.
Microsoft says it will appeal.
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2009-08-12 19:46:39
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valuablepatents
12:40PM Aug 13 2009 
Judge Leonard Davis was nominated as a United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Texas by -- wait for it!!! -- President George W. Bush on January 23, 2002, and was sworn in on May 15, 2002.
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Wjones805499
3:48AM Aug 13 2009 
Some of you all amazing, what in the world does MicroSoft have to do with President Obama? Corporate, Government.....2 TOTALLY different things & to thing some of you actually graduated high school & college to allow some of the most ignorant crap come out of your mouths, let alone let your fingers type it. Most of the people talking about socialist couldn't point one out if they walked up & slapped them in the face. If MicroSoft did it then they deserve the punishment period, and for you Obama haters, I'll just say this most of you voted for a man (Bush), who unjustly went into Iraq (without evidence just a guess) killed off a leader & most if not all of his family & you get upset because Obama is trying to fix the mess Bush put us in? Yeah you're real bright, most of you dumb*sses forget the constitution is set to keep the country as a democracy, the man hasn't even been in office a year & things are already looking better. You all need to pull your heads out of your behinds, get a freaking clue, & let this man have his chance hell you gave Bush 8 years & what did we all get out of that....um let's see gas prices out of this world, a 10 billion dollar a day bill in Iraq, hard working Americans losing their homes, the rich got richer & the poor got the same penny they have been getting. Ignorance will never get you anywhere.
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DougSuppes
1:33AM Aug 13 2009 
dumb*ss, another righty who's never stood watch for his own freedom. If you invented and developed your own product and someone stole it, you'd cry! The place is called The UNITED States of America. Your pres./vice pres stole yours/my money for eight yrs, and now its Obamas fault for putting effort towards taking care of The Unites States of America. In the USMC we have rank & file, but when the rounds come down range it's about the well being of the unit as a whole, not your individualist/selfish mind. something I'm sure you know nothing about. Shut up and say Thank you, Dick!
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McDuffik49
1:06AM Aug 13 2009 
He is an anti-American judge, one of obama's supporters, and this is one way he can help bring America down. Canada is a socialist country, I'm sure one of obama's favorites.
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Emory C Wyatt
10:38PM Aug 12 2009 
It couldn't have had anything to do with Bill Gates, that's not his style. His greatest invention was in creating "vaporware." ..............-----------
Oh yes, and trying to clone flying toaters, too........%-@
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