As of Monday — thanks to a permanent injunction issued in August by Judge Leonard Davis of the Eastern District of Texas and upheld last month by the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals — Microsoft Corporation must stop selling any version of Microsoft Word 2007 or Microsoft Office 2007 that includes a custom XML editor found to infringe a patent held by a small Canadian software company called i4i, Inc.
It’s not every day that such a well-known product has to be modified — or possibly removed from store shelves — because of a patent dispute. Indeed, the Supreme Court made getting such an injunction in a patent case extremely difficult with its landmark eBay v. MercExchange ruling in 2006.
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