Microsoft files its appeal brief in a patent-infringement case that could see copies of Microsoft Word pulled from stores. The original verdict, which stated that Microsoft had violated a custom XML patent held by i4i, a small Canadian company, also ordered Microsoft to pay nearly $300 million in fines. A technological workaround would possibly be difficult to execute; Microsoft’s other potential course of action would be to settle with i4i out of court.
– Microsoft
filed an appeal on Aug. 25 in a patent-infringement suit that threatens to yank
copies of Microsoft Word from store shelves and force the company to pay
hundreds of millions of dollars in fines. The issue centers on Word’s alleged
usage of custom XML covered in a
patent held by i4i, a…