Patent fun: Microsoft Word sales banned in the US
Patent fun: Microsoft Word sales banned in the US
Posted Aug 12, 2009 18:16 UTC (Wed) by coriordan (guest, #7544)In reply to: Patent fun: Microsoft Word sales banned in the US by etrusco
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I'm no expert on the USA's system, but I'd guess, if the trial can examine the patent's validity, it can only do so *if* the defendant argued that the patent was invalid.
MS is probably uneasy about making those sort of arguments since it could come back to haunt them. MS has their own XML patents