Actually, reading a bit more, it seems like the lawsuit may be done deal. Damage amounts have already been set, this was simply a follow injunction that was promised when the final ruling was made.
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That ruling, which came in the wake of a jury trial, set damages at $240 million and tacked on another $37 million of interest, and it noted that a separate injunction would eventually be issued. That injunction was handed down yesterday, and it bars Microsoft from selling any form of Word that reads the formatting information out of a .DOCX or .DOCM file.
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http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/new...pping-word.ars
And other than fighting the injunction, I'm not sure MS has any leg to stand on as far as getting the original ruling settled on since:
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Ironically, the patent in question covers a method of separating formatting information from runs of text when documents are written to files—something Microsoft itself received a patent for just this week. Unfortunately, the folks in Redmond filed theirs six months behind the competition.
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