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On August 11, a court in Texas banned the sale of Microsoft Word in the US due to a patent lawsuit, concerning XML features, brought by the Canadian company i4i.
Since the ruling, the question of patents regarding OpenOffice has also been raised, but according to an article on Government Computer News, OpenOffice has nothing to fear. "i4i said it has looked at OpenOffice and found it doesn't infringe on its patents" GCN reports.
They are using a patent for income. Sounds like a patent troll to me.
And thanks to their precedent it's going to be extremely difficult for anyone in the future to invalidate bad patents.
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Comments
Not a patent troll?!!
iam Jun 11, 2011 4:16am GMT
They are using a patent for income. Sounds like a patent troll to me.And thanks to their precedent it's going to be extremely difficult for anyone in the future to invalidate bad patents.
A little fuzzy reporting
Tommy Sep 11, 2009 11:04am GMT
The first Working Draft of XML was done in 1996.