$200 Million Verdict for i4i Inc. - Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Microsoft
TYLER, Texas – The national law firm of McKool Smith is announcing a $200 million patent infringement verdict handed down in favor of Toronto-based i4i Inc. against software giant Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT).
The verdict was issued on May 20, 2009, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Tyler Division. Jurors found that Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft willfully infringed an i4i patent covering a document formatting system.
A team of attorneys from McKool Smith and Tyler, Texas-based Parker, Bunt & Ainsworth successfully argued that Microsoft infringed an i4i patent issued in 1998, U.S. Patent No. 5,787,499, that covers software designed to manipulate “document architecture and content.” The software covered by the patent removed the need for individual, manually embedded command codes to control text formatting in electronic documents.
The jury found that Microsoft later deployed this technology in a range of the company’s operating system products, including Word 2003 and Word 2007.
Read the rest at McKool Smith website
The verdict was issued on May 20, 2009, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Tyler Division. Jurors found that Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft willfully infringed an i4i patent covering a document formatting system.
A team of attorneys from McKool Smith and Tyler, Texas-based Parker, Bunt & Ainsworth successfully argued that Microsoft infringed an i4i patent issued in 1998, U.S. Patent No. 5,787,499, that covers software designed to manipulate “document architecture and content.” The software covered by the patent removed the need for individual, manually embedded command codes to control text formatting in electronic documents.
The jury found that Microsoft later deployed this technology in a range of the company’s operating system products, including Word 2003 and Word 2007.
Read the rest at McKool Smith website
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