When a judge halted the sale of Microsoft Word on Tuesday for infringing a patent, many of us wondered about the repercussions of this decision. The patent itself, for the creation of custom XML ...

You read that right: Microsoft cannot sell Word, the judge ruled. … i4i alleges Microsoft willingly violated its 1998 patent (No. 5,787,449) on a method for reading XML.

In an ongoing dispute over the use of XML in Word, Microsoft called the claim by Canadian developer i4i that it plotted to drive the company out of business "distorted," and "a breathless tale ...

Redmond rebuts claims that it met with i4i only to steal its XML technology; Microsoft wants a new trial, at minimum, calling the verdict a 'miscarriage of justice' ...