Canada's i4i finajly triumphs over Microsoft

摘要

THE U.S. SUPREME COURT HAS given Toronto-based i4i Inc. a US$300 million patent infringement victory over Microsoft Corp. by letting a lower court ruling stand. The legal battle, which started in 2007, has already forced Microsoft to modify certain functionality in its Word application in 2009, when the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas ruled in favor of i4i and told Microsoft to stop selling Word in the U.S. At issue was an i4i patent that covers technology that lets users manipulate the architecture and content of a document, which i4i alleged Microsoft infringed upon by letting Wo*rd users create custom XML documents. Microsoft removed the feature.