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A recent court decision preventing the retail availability of the 2003 and 2007 editions of Microsoft Word has been dramatically overturned after the manufacturing corporate giant this week received a favourable ruling via the legal appeals process.
Word on the street is Microsoft may escape retail punishment. Image: Microsoft.
According to Microsoft, the stay of injunction was granted on Thursday by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit after the software maker’s request for an expedited review adequately met the court’s qualifying requirements.
Microsoft’s request was lodged two weeks ago after a U.S. district court in Texas ruled against it on August 12 after a long-running XML (a.k.a. Extensible Markup Language) patent dispute case filed by Canada-based software specialist i4i Ltd.
The court’s decision that Microsoft was in breach of contract had initially left the Redmond-based titan facing almost $300 million USD in damages and, perhaps more importantly, a complete block on the sale of its revenue-rich word processing platform from mid-October.
“We are happy with the result and look forward to presenting our arguments on the mail issues,” commented Microsoft spokesman Kevin Kutz regarding the upcoming appeals hearing.
With Microsoft’s request duly granted, the Court of Appeals has outlined that it is preparing to listen to arguments on the case this coming September 23.
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