Monday, November 29, 2010

GreenBkk Tech | U.S. top court to hear Microsoft appeal on i4i patent

U.S. top court to hear Microsoft appeal on i4i patent

Credit: Reuters (www.reuters.com)

(Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court said on Monday it would hear Microsoft Corp's (MSFT.O) appeal seeking to overturn a $290 million jury verdict against it for infringing a patent held by a small Canadian software firm.

A federal jury awarded Toronto-based i4i $290 million after finding that Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft had infringed the i4i patent relating to text manipulation software in the 2003 and 2007 versions of Word, Microsoft's word processing application.

(Reporting by James Vicini, Editing by Derek Caney)

Credit: Reuters (www.reuters.com)


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