Douglas Cawley of McKool Smith, who represented i4i at the six-day trial, told us that he asked the jury to award his client $200-207 million. He also said that the jury found the infringement to be willful, which gives Tyler, Texas, federal district court judge Leonard Davis the discretion to treble the damages. That determination is weeks away, said Cawley. Microsoft was represented by Matthew Powers of Weil, Gotshal & Manges.
Cawley told us the dispute is over Microsoft Word’s use of extensible markup language (XML) to process electronic documents. Cawley said he presented evidence that Microsoft knew about i4i’s patent but didn’t try to avoid infringement.
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