Microsoft Loses Yet Another Appeal, Must pay $290 Million to i4i
Microsoft Loses Yet Another Appeal, Must pay $290 Million to i4i
Posted 04/02/2010 at 7:53am
| by Paul Lilly
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Microsoft is starting to remind us of Rocky Balboa, except that the battles are taking place in court and we've stopped expecting a last minute comeback. The latest punch to Redmond's gut comes from the U.S. Court of appeals for the Federal Circuit, which rejected Microsoft's request for a rehearing in the patent dispute with Canadian software developer i4i.
"This has been a long and arduous process, but this decision is a powerful reinforcement of the message that smaller enterprises and inventors who own intellectual property can and will be protected," said i4i chairman Owen Louden.
I4i first sued Microsoft back in 2007 alleging that an XML editor built into Word runs afoul of its patent. The Canadian company ultimately won the case along with a $290 million award, while Microsoft continues to lose appeal after appeal.
So is Microsoft finally ready to throw in the towel? Not hardly.
"We continue to believe there are important matters of patent law that still need to be properly addressed, and we are considering our options for going forward," a spokesperson for the company told Reuters.
Cue the Rocky theme.
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bmomjian
April 06, 2010 at 2:26pm
"we are considering our options for going forward"
Translation: We lost and have no options.
Trooper_One
April 06, 2010 at 12:49pm
Not that I feel sorry for Mirco$oft, but does i4i actually do anything with the patent?!?
sdcat
April 02, 2010 at 7:49pm
You got FIRED? what did you do or what didn't you do?
It is so very hard to get a job right now. I came from a laid off, and barely just able to get one. In California, since Numi car factory closed off, about 5k worker out of job. That's going to be hard.
Be responsible, be professional, and don't do stupid things.
gendoikari1
April 02, 2010 at 2:14pm
Why do I have a feeling that MS would buy i4i and reassign its employees to janitorial positions? Because that would be awesome.
Keith E. Whisman
April 02, 2010 at 2:23pm
why bother even keeping the company alive? Just buy the company for the patents and then close the doors and fire everyone or lay them off. I lost my job in this economy and I gotta tell you it's really hard. I got fired from my last job and because of that nobody wants to hire me or even give me a chance. Employers have choices. So fire them and screw em that way.
Keith E. Whisman
April 02, 2010 at 1:25pm
So is that in Canadian money? 1Canadian Loony is worth .99Cents US dollars.. Damn I remember when it used to be worth it going to Canada. I remember all the Canadian stores thanking me profusely for spending my US dollars at their stores and restaurants.
Last time I was in Canada the US Dollar was worth $1.67 Canadian dollars.
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