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Welcome to the world of surprising patent lawsuits. A Texas judge ruled Tuesday that Microsoft cannot sell Word – yes, Microsoft Word, the cornerstone of Microsoft Office – in the United States.
Well as real as anything patent related that comes out of East Texas.
Though won't mean much, as MS have 60 days to appeal and they can continue as normal until then.
Then they will probably get the ban lifted at the appeal court level as higher courts have already come down saying that trade should not be stopped over a patent battle while the legal process is underway (fallout from the RIM case)
And while this is on going Patent office will probably review the patent and toss it out as being to broad/generic
US really needs to stop allowing software patent's (and UK/Euro needs to stop thinking about implementing them)
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