Microsoft filed an emergency motion to block a court ruling that would have seen copies of Microsoft Word pulled from store shelves. The chairman and founder of i4i, the small Canadian company that filed the suit against Microsoft for infringing on their XML-related patent, say that while they are very much determined to pursue their case against Redmond, they are not focused on potentially litigating against the open-source community or OpenDocument Format, which utilize the XML format.
– Microsoft filed an emergency motion on Aug. 14 in a
Texas case that would have forced
it to pull Microsoft Word from store shelves and pay a small Canadian company,
i4i, close to $300 million in fines.

In an interview with eWEEK, i4i chairman Loudon Owen and founder Michel Vulpe, the chairman…