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Microsoft to Continue Shipping Word Pending Appeal

by G on Sep.06, 2009, under Entertane.com

PCMag.com by Chloe Albanesius:- Microsoft Word lives on – for now.

A federal appeals court on Thursday granted the software giant a stay of an injunction that required Microsoft to stop production of Word.

On Aug. 11, a District Court in Texas handed down a $290 million judgment against the software giant and ordered the company to remove Word from the market within 60 days because it violated a patent held by i4i.

Microsoft promptly filed an appeal and requested that the injunction be delayed pending appeal. The Federal Appeals Court for the D.C. Circuit agreed, and the two sides will meet again in court on September 23. <Full Story…>


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