'Justifiably' Proud
'Justifiably' Proud
Posted Aug 12, 2009 17:30 UTC (Wed) by jejb (subscriber, #6654)In reply to: 'Justifiably' Proud by coriordan
Parent article: Patent fun: Microsoft Word sales banned in the US
> On swpat.org, I'm documenting i4i v. Microsoft and Microsoft's lost cases)
Actually, there is cause for hope in the Injunction. There's a line that says:
"This injunction does not apply to any of the above actions wherein any of the infringing and future word products, upon opening an XML file, applies a custom transformation that removes all custom XML elements"
This implies the infringement was something to do with the way the Microsoft files use custom XML elements. These were a main bone of contention in the ISO approval process and more significantly, ODF doesn't use custom XML extensions, so it might not infringe the patent.
Obviously, someone would need to read the trial transcript to assure us that this is indeed the point of infringement.