No selling Microsoft Word application in the USA

American Court has spoken measure barring sales Microsoft Word application, and all software that is content. This decision applies to the territory of the United States. Shocking announcement came after it was found that the unauthorized use Microsoft patent that is in another's property. Namely, this occurs after the court in favor of a Canadian company that is Microsoft sue the U.S. courts. Canadian company infrastructures for Information (i4i) has been a long time led a dispute against Microsoft and due to the fact that the unauthorized use redmondski giant patent number 5,787,449, which relates to the XML mark-up who is to provide the text and maintain your files format and be readable in a variety of programs.

Pronounced the prohibition applies to the sale of Word 2003 and Word 2007 applications, and Microsoft will have to compensate the damage mentioned Canadian companies. Specifically, you'll need to pay compensation of 240 million dollars, and in addition to existing ones, will not be permitted to sell or future versions of software that work with. Xml. Docx, or. Docm files that contain the so-called. custom XML. Microsoft lawyers have announced that they will appeal the decision, and the conciliatory tones coming from the Canadian company infrastructures for Information. Its leaders have stated that their goal is not to natežu problems or to make a global software market, let alone to users suffer the consequences, but that only wanted to protect their intellectual property, and are open to different types of agreement with Microsoft Corporation. To expect that an agreement will be reached, in order to prevent users suffer the consequences of such court decisions (and the previous conduct and Microsoft).