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> The judge who banned Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) from selling its Word
> document program in the U.S. due to a patent violation tacked an
> additional $40 million onto a jury's $200 million verdict because the
> software maker's lawyers engaged in trial misconduct, court records
> reveal.
> In a written ruling, Judge Leonard Davis, of U.S. District Court for
> Eastern Texas, chastised Microsoft's attorneys for repeatedly
> misrepresenting the law in presentations to jurors.
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> "Throughout the course of trial Microsoft's trial counsel persisted in
> arguing that it was somehow improper for a non-practicing patent owner
> to sue for money damages," Davis wrote.
> The judge cited a particular incident in which a Microsoft lawyer
> compared plaintiff i4i, Inc. to banks that sought bailout money from
> the federal government under the Troubled Asset Relief Program.
>
> "He further persisted in improperly trying to equate i4i's
> infringement case with the current national banking crisis implying
> that i4i was a banker seeking a 'bailout'," Davis said.
> </Quote>
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/enterpriseapps/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=219400044
How many "Trial Misconducts" is Microsoft never punished for?
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