We’ve diligently followed the Microsoft v. i4i Limited Partnership patent dispute because it wound its way in the course of the courts , and now comes the day of reckoning: by a unanimous decision, the usa Supreme Court has upheld the patent-infringement finding against Redmond. For those of you simply catching up, MS were taken to court by Toronto-based i4i over a portfolio of XML-related patents — patents it had already offered to license to the software behemoth. In court, Microsoft claimed it had not infringed and that the patents were invalid; a 2009 Texas court disagreed and awarded $200 million in damages. A subsequent appeal failed. Oh, and the government sided with i4i . Today’s Supreme Court verdict upholds the lower courts’ decisions: Microsoft Word is an infringing product, and the corporate now owes $290 million. The finding likely won’t affect consumers, because the offending versions of Word at the moment are obsolete. Still, $290 million isn’t chump change, even for the world’s largest software company. There’s probably a joke in here about i4i justice, but we’ll be dadblasted if we will find it.
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