{"id":112682,"date":"2009-12-29T22:12:03","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T03:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kempton.wordpress.com\/?p=8620"},"modified":"2009-12-29T22:12:03","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T03:12:03","slug":"i4i-v-microsoft-cafc-2009-1504","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/112682","title":{"rendered":"i4i v. Microsoft (CAFC 2009-1504)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='snap_preview'><\/p>\n<p>From TorStar &#8220;<a title=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/business\/article\/742164--u-s-appeals-court-backs-t-o-firm-over-microsoft\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/business\/article\/742164--u-s-appeals-court-backs-t-o-firm-over-microsoft\" >U.S. appeals court backs T.O. firm over Microsoft<\/a>&#8220;,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Microsoft Corp. has lost an appeal against a small Toronto company in a patent fight that cost the world&#8217;s biggest software maker $290 million (U.S.) and forced it to alter its ubiquitous MS Word program.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>i4i v. Microsoft (<a title=\"http:\/\/www.cafc.uscourts.gov\/opinions\/09-1504.pdf\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cafc.uscourts.gov\/opinions\/09-1504.pdf\" >CAFC 2009-1504<\/a>)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Since 2003, versions of Microsoft Word, a word processing and editing software, have had XML editing capabilities. In 2007, i4i filed this action against Microsoft, the developer and seller of Word.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>These two commentaries on the case in <a title=\"http:\/\/www.patenthawk.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/unpreserved.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.patenthawk.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/unpreserved.html\" >The Patent Prospector<\/a> were fun to read,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;As with other issues in this case, Microsoft screwed its own pooch with procedural sloppiness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There was no hesitation to rub salt in that wound.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>[via <a title=\"http:\/\/www.patenthawk.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/unpreserved.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.patenthawk.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/unpreserved.html\" >The Patent Prospector<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Posted in Business, Canada, Entrepreneurship, Law, patent, Science &amp; Technology  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8620\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8620\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8620\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8620\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8620\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8620\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8620\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8620\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8620\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8620\/\" \/><\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=kempton.wordpress.com&#038;blog=364107&#038;post=8620&#038;subd=kempton&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From TorStar &#8220;U.S. appeals court backs T.O. firm over Microsoft&#8220;, &#8220;Microsoft Corp. has lost an appeal against a small Toronto company in a patent fight that cost the world&#8217;s biggest software maker $290 million (U.S.) and forced it to alter its ubiquitous MS Word program.&#8221; i4i v. Microsoft (CAFC 2009-1504) Since 2003, versions of Microsoft [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":841,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/841"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}