Έχασε γι άλλη μια φορά η Micro$oft στα δικαστήρια

The U.S. Federal Court of Appeals has once again upheld a jury's verdict that Microsoft willfully infringed on patents awarded to i4i.

The verdict, which the appeals court first affirmed in December, required Microsoft to pay more than $240 million in damages and forced it to remove a feature in versions of Microsoft Word 2007 starting in January. Microsoft had been charged with infringing a patent owned by i4i with a feature in Word 2003 and 2007 that lets people create custom XML documents.

Microsoft asked the appeals court to reconsider its decision, and on Wednesday the appeals court upheld its previous affirmation of the district court ruling. Much of the latest decision is identical to the December document, except for an expanded explanation of the three-judge panel's decision to uphold the "willfulness" issue.

"A reasonable jury could have concluded that Microsoft 'willfully' infringed the '449 patent based on the evidence presented at trial," the judges wrote. The decision pointed to evidence presented at the trial showing that Microsoft employees attended demonstrations of i4i software and received i4i sales kits that identified the software as patented technology. This piece of evidence and others imply that Microsoft was aware of the i4i patent, the decision says.

"Similarly, there is no evidence Microsoft ever made a good faith effort to avoid infringement; internal emails show Microsoft intended to render i4i's product 'obsolete' and assure 'there won't be a need for [i4i's] product,'" the judges wrote.

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Άλλη μια κλασσική Micro$oft περίπτωση. Από την δημιουργία της η Micro$oft έκλεβε και κλέβει λογισμικό, ιδέες και ότι άλλο μπορεί από τις πιο μικρές εταιρίες μέχρι και τις πιο μεγάλες.

Ο Billακος και ο φίλος του ο Ballmerακος σε αυτό ήτανε και είναι ΜΕΓΑΛΟΙ μάστορες. Και γι αυτό εξάλλου τους επιβραβεύετε για πάνω από 10 χρόνια με τα χρήματα που βγάζετε πολλές φορές με το ζόρι. Κάθε φορά που πατάνε πάνω σε πτώματα, εκεί εσείς να τους πληρώνετε ξανά και ξανά. ΖΩΑ.

Αυτό είναι που λένε κύλησε ο τέντζερης και βρήκε το καπάκι. Ή αλλιώς κύλησε η Micro$oft και βρήκε τις πουτάνες της (ΕΣΑΣ).

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