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Microsoft Found Guilty of Patent Infringement
A federal jury in Texas has ordered Microsoft to pay $200 million for infringing the patents of Toronto-based company, i4i. The infringement relates to the custom XML tagging features of Word 2003 and Word 2007. The verdict comes one month after Microsoft was ordered to pay $388 million in a separate infringement case brought by Uniloc. Microsoft has said that it will appeal both verdicts.
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