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Microsoft embarrassed by new XML patent email
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| "We saw [i4i's products] some time ago, and met its creators," said Sawicki
| in the Jan. 23, 2003, e-mail. "Word 11 will make it obsolete. It looks great
| for XP though." Word 11 was the in-development code name for what was
| eventually dubbed Word 2003.
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http://news.techworld.com/applications/121515/microsoft-embarrassed-by-new-xml-patent-email/?email
Imagine a world without Word
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| Other analysts say Microsoft might choose to remove the Extensible Markup
| Language components that infringe on i4i's patent and sell new versions of
| Word without them.
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| And Microsoft Word, though popular, is not the exclusive word-processing
| software of the federal government. For example, the Joint Forces Command is
| using OpenOffice for a small experimental project, said Kathleen Jabs, a
| spokeswoman at the command.
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http://fcw.com/articles/2009/08/24/week-microsoft-word-future-outlook.aspx
Microsoft Lawyers Start to Sweep Up Word Mess
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| Specifically, Microsoft must refrain from "selling, offering to sell, and/or
| importing in or into the United States any Infringing and Future Word
| Products that have the capability of opening a .XML, .DOCX or .DOCM file
| (containing custom XML)," the injunction states.
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http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/Microsoft-Lawyers-Start-to-Sweep-Up-Word-Mess-67906.html?wlc=1250851424
Recent:
Softpatent trolls OOXML and Word
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| We may add that while Microsoft always pays lip service to patent reform and
| patent quality, it effectively obstructed even moderate steps of pragmatic
| reform in the field of software patenting with massive lobbying investment
| and an ideological agenda. An ideological motivation you don't find among all
| the other players which have a real business. The massive lobbying also
| applies to colonial attitudes towards patent regimes of third nations in
| which the American company operates, or the European Union, our main area of
| operations as the FFII e.V. Ironically Microsoft itself is a favourite target
| of troll challenges and no one knows how much profits Marshall Phelps
| actually generates by selling their Microsoft FAT patents. In the spectacular
| case of TomTom we were told it was a very small amount. Some American critics
| as Brian Kahin speak of a patent bubble of low value patents but how is it
| going to burst? When you have a licensing business a good patent is one that
| hurts. Maybe the Encyclopedia Brittannica is an example, it failed
| commercially and now became an (unsuccesful) patent enforcement agency
| against actual market players.
|
| In the recent referral G03/08 about software patentability an European Patent
| Office case named T 424/03 (Microsoft) was center to the debate. Find the
| Amicus letters here. Currently you also have a pending referral on Bilski in
| the US Supreme Court which is more far reaching than software. In the US many
| examination tests were dismantled such as the machine or transformation box
| test which opened the flood gates and unbalanced the system. It was
| reintroduced under the Bilski ruling but appealed at the supreme court. The
| Bilski test does not rule out software or business method patents but
| provides means to reduce the pressure within the examination system in later
| stages.
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| First you wreck the law, then the trolls wreck you.
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| [...]
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| Right now ISO/IEC 29500 ("OOXML") is patent encumbered and cannot be called
| an "open standard" according to conventional definitions and looks unusable
| for the public sector.
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-175409/softpatent-trolls-ooxml-and-word
Court Bans Microsoft From Selling Word
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| In the latest apparent case of the U.S. patent system run amok, Judge Leonard
| Davis of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued a
| permanent injunction on Tuesday preventing Microsoft from selling versions of
| Word that handle custom XML in the form of the .DOCX, .DOCM, and .XML file
| formats. Which would mean that Microsoft is now forbidden from selling Word
| 2003 or Word 2007. And since it also forbids Microsoft from testing such
| versions of Word, there would seem to be implications for Office 2010 as
| well.
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http://technologizer.com/2009/08/12/court-bans-microsoft-from-selling-word/
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