[babybearbear]

A judge on Tuesday ordered Microsoft to stop selling Word, one of its premier products, in its current form due to patent infringement.

Judge Leonard Davis of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued a permanent injunction that "prohibits Microsoft from selling or importing to the United States any Microsoft Word products that have the capability of opening .XML, .DOCX or DOCM files (XML files) containing custom XML," according to a statement released by attorneys for the plantiff, i4i.

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Judge Orders Permanent Stop of Microsoft Word Sales Within 60 Days - Microsoft word injunction - Gizmodo

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[BaLtO]

Using Software Patent to attack ...
Oh, it's the downside of software patent.
Somemore the scope of software patent is too wide, and they can be used to attack future innovations. And after patenting, the patent term is too long. Different patents might overlap each other sometimes.

Ya thumbs down to software patents.

[AS1]

so in the US, all one needs to do is think what may be possible in the next 10 years and then patent it even if just a theory now. then once someone else makes it a reality, earn as much as possible.

i remember there was a term for this but forgotten.

[chongcheng]

think it is patent trolls or something

patent all sort of ideas and buy over others patents, then wait for pple to infringe and $$$. Money falls all the way into their coffers.

[AS1]

anyway..the ruling only applies to US.

i am wondering if its safe for the judge to walk the steets of US knowing the judge`s ruling might cause the infrastructure collapse of the educational, healthcare, economical as well as military of the US?

Things keep coming up one after another for Obama.

[BaLtO]

Originally Posted by AS1

anyway..the ruling only applies to US.

i am wondering if its safe for the judge to walk the steets of US knowing the judge`s ruling might cause the infrastructure collapse of the educational, healthcare, economical as well as military of the US?

Things keep coming up one after another for Obama.

Won't affect too much, they can still use existing copies of office.
Workperfect Office and OpenOffice.org are other alternatives that they can choose in future purchases.

But same case, the case might be extend to these office suites but not yet because they all support .docx.

So, no point, I suspect if this case is won, they will chase after the no 2 suite, which is the wordperfect office. And then OpenOffice.org

It's a failure of the patent system. They should accept patent implementation based on actual product, and not extend the implementation of the patent to other products.

They should just scrap software patent or put more restrictions on how it can be used, and also shorten the time of software patent to 5 years, else it will hinder innovations as it waste money, time and effort to fight off patent trolls, where the money, time and effort can be used for R&D purposes.

[Chrisat]

Originally Posted by BaLtO

So, no point, I suspect if this case is won, they will chase after the no 2 suite, which is the wordperfect office. And then OpenOffice.org

It would appear unlikely that they will go after OpenOffice though. Allegedly the patent holder is a known patent troll, their main objective would then simply be monetary gains. There is no money to be made from going after OO

[BaLtO]

Originally Posted by Chrisat

It would appear unlikely that they will go after OpenOffice though. Allegedly the patent holder is a known patent troll, their main objective would then simply be monetary gains. There is no money to be made from going after OO

Last time there's one company called SCO that goes against linux, and IBM, Novell and others are involved. They can go after Sun Microsystems(Staroffice based on OO.o), IBM(Symphony) or Novell(Novell version of OO.o) since they distributed them.

Ya, there's money to go after, if they want. It's a stupid patent troll. They should pay for all the damages for causing a troll.