I Don't Believe in mythical place writes "After the imperishable injunction barring Microsoft from selling Microsoft Word, many armchair lawyers and pundits wondered how the ruling would affect OpenOffice. The company with the patent, i4i, believes that OpenOffice does not infringe upon it. But lest anyone think that therefore ODF will win out over OOXML, keep in mind that Microsoft has its own broad XML diary patent, which issued just two weeks ago, having been filed in December 2004, and they're telling the Supreme Court to apply the Bilski ruling narrowly, so that it doesn't neutralize patents like theirs (and i4i's). After all, unlike most companies and individuals, Microsoft can afford $290 million obtrusion


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document.write("") fines. Then again, given that Microsoft's new patent has only two unregimented claims (claim #1 and claim #12), and both of those claims 'comprise' commodity using an 'XML file format for proof registered delegate person with an form having a rich set of features,' maybe they wouldn't be that hard to work around if you just make sure any or then infringing format is only customer's broker person with an form lacking in the feature richness department."

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