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Information Technology law update: Microsoft ordered to stop selling Word!

By Izaz Ali

Microsoft has been ordered to stop selling Microsoft Word, within 60 days.

Judge Leonard Davis a US District Court Judge for the Eastern District of Texas gave the ruling and restricted the Microsoft Corporation from selling, offer to sell, and/or importing in or into the US any Infringing and future Word Products that have the capability of opening a .XML file.

Microsoft Corporation was also ordered to pay $290m for infringing an i4i patent covering a document system that relies on the .XML custom formatting function.

Izaz Ali (Izaz.Ali@lawdit.co.uk) Izaz is a commercial lawyer who specialises in information technology law and intellectual property law with an emphasis on IT, escrow, online and off-line contracts, and the buying and selling of online businesses.