Canadian-based i4i has refuted the latest claims made by Microsoft in an extensible markup language (XML) patent infringement case involving Word. The company outlined its arguments in a 99-page brief ...

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The Supreme Court decision affirming the $240 million judgment against Microsoft for violating i4i's XML patent highlights the broken technology-patent system, especially for software. Dennis O'Reilly ...

MIAMI (CN) - An ongoing $290 million patent case against Microsoft has no bearing on the company's right to collect more than $220,900 in damages from an entity that illegally imported and sold its ...

WASHINGTON — It’s a feature few Microsoft Word users knew about and even fewer ever used. But a document-editing function no longer included in Word landed Microsoft before the Supreme Court on Monday ...

The U.S. Federal Court of Appeals has once again upheld a jury’s verdict that Microsoft willfully infringed on patents awarded to i4i. The verdict, which the appeals court first affirmed in December, ...

The U.S. Supreme Court this morning rejected Microsoft’s appeal in a long-running patent dispute with Canadian technology company i4i, turning away an attempt by Microsoft and its industry allies to ...

As I mentioned last night, as part of a patent infringement suit that was brought by i4i, a federal judge has issued an injunction preventing Microsoft from selling Word. But this isn't an issue just ...

Enterprises shouldn’t worry about the U.S. Federal Court of Appeals injunction barring Microsoft from selling Word 2007 and Office 2007 in the US on January 11, 2010. The court upheld a ruling that an ...

Loudon Owen, left, and Michael Vulpe of i4i, literally counting the $290 million in damages from the Microsoft case. That's the very same calculator used by the jury in the original trial. Earlier ...

The chairman of the company that has won a landmark injunction against Microsoft says his goal is not to see Microsoft Word pulled from store shelves. In fact, I4i Chairman Loudon Owen said he is one ...