When a judge halted the sale of Microsoft Word on Tuesday for infringing a patent, many of us wondered about the repercussions of this decision. The patent itself, for the creation of custom XML ...

You read that right: Microsoft cannot sell Word, the judge ruled. … i4i alleges Microsoft willingly violated its 1998 patent (No. 5,787,449) on a method for reading XML.

Microsoft is going to have to cease providing Custom XML as part of its Office suite, as it has lost its appeal to overturn a patent-infringement verdict awarded to Toronto-based i4i for that ...

The short version of the story so many are talking about today: A Texas judge is barring Microsoft from selling Microsoft Word due to alleged patent infringement and fining the Redmondians ...

Microsoft already has a patch for the patent problem in Word and is telling U.S. OEMs to apply it, removing the ability to strip out custom XML from files before allowing users to edit them.

Microsoft has now released the plug-in, which adds a "Save as DAISY XML" option to Microsoft Office Word 2007, Word 2003 and Word XP.

In an ongoing dispute over the use of XML in Word, Microsoft called the claim by Canadian developer i4i that it plotted to drive the company out of business "distorted," and "a breathless tale ...

A recently granted patent, however, reveals that the entire effort took place while Microsoft had a patent pending that covers nearly any use of XML for storing word processing documents.

XML is used in recent versions of Microsoft's word-processor Word. Texas district court judge Leonard Davis also filed an injunction preventing Microsoft from selling Word. The row specifically ...

Redmond rebuts claims that it met with i4i only to steal its XML technology; Microsoft wants a new trial, at minimum, calling the verdict a 'miscarriage of justice' ...