Microsoft can keep on selling Word …
p2pnet news view | Products:- Microsoft can keep on selling Word — for a while, at least.
Canadian i4i successfully won an order compelling it to halt sales of the application, one of its oldest.
The Toronto company won the permanent injunction and damages and interest totalling more than $290 million, said p2pnet.
But the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has now stayed the injunction pending the completion of Microsoft’s appeal against the order, slated to go into effect on October 10.
Says the Seattle Post-Intelligencer »»»
Last week, computer manufacturers Dell and HP filed amicus curiae briefs stating their support for Microsoft.
Those companies said a ban on selling Word would upend the industry and affect more than just Microsoft. Microsoft has said it would need several months to re-engineer Word without custom XML support, if so forced by the courts.
“Defendant-Appellant Microsoft claims it may have to stop distributing Word and Office in the U.S. market until it can redesign both products,” i4i Chairman Loudon Owen (right) said in a statement.
“Microsoft’s scare tactics about the consequences of the injunction cannot shield it from the imminent review of the case by the Federal Circuit Court of Appeal on the Sept. 23 appeal.
“To paraphrase the great heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis, ‘They can run, but they can’t hide,’” he added.
“Microsoft’s time will eventually run out.”
Stay tuned.
p2pnet – Stop selling Word, Microsoft ordered, August 12, 2009
Seattle Post-Intelligencer – Court grants Microsoft’s motion to stay Word injunction, September 2, 2009
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September 4th, 2009 at 7:59 pm
Doncha just love the double standard?
September 7th, 2009 at 10:23 am
From reading the article Microsoft got caught doing what it has always been accused of doing. However, i4i was lucky enough to have filed their claims in Texas patent court system. It was a patent violation, and not being caught being overly aggressive.