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Originally Posted by FanIn80
Edit: I just think it's not exactly coincidental that MS always finds themselves in these lawsuits. Either they just don't care, or their "rights holders" research team is the worst on the planet.
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It's not just Microsoft, it happens to every large corporation that small obscure ones go after them for patent infringement money. RIM was dealing with this just a year or two ago.
The rumblings are that this will be easily overturned in the Supreme Court, the the judge didn't know squat about computers. XML and Metacodes are basically used in everything
XML is a fee-free open standard created by the XML Group in the mid 90s, not i4i. It's used in hundreds of things including RSS, Atom, and XHTML. XML dialects have become the default file format for a number of office-productivity tools, including Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, AbiWord, and Apple's iWork. i4i basically patented the use of any Metacodes in a document which is a rough abstract concept but Google uses metacodes, Apple uses metacodes, everybody does. They are going after Microsoft specifically for money when they could also go after everyone else also.