Is Microsoft violator or victim in i4i patent dispute?

By Joe Wilcox | Published August 12, 2009, 7:26 PM

Perhaps they don't use Microsoft Office at the courthouse in Tyler, Texas? Could there be no computers at all and just Selectric typewriters? I have to wonder following yesterday's injunction barring Microsoft from shipping Word.

I'm being snide because Tyler is the reputed "patent troll" capital of North America. Plaintiffs tend to win big judgments there, and surrounding vicinity, against companies like Microsoft. As such, it's easy to dismiss yesterday's court judgment as meritless. But is it?

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Microsoft asks appeal court to put Word injunction on hold

Toronto — The Canadian Press
Last updated on Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2009 08:25PM EDT

Microsoft (MSFT-T) has asked a U.S. appeals court to put an injunction to stop the sale of its popular Microsoft Word software in the United States on hold pending appeal.

The worlds largest software developer filed the emergency motion with U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit after a jury found the company violated a patent belonging to Toronto-based i4i LP.

In its filing with the court Tuesday, Microsoft said i4i was not entitled to the injunction.

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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/techno...article1256328/