{"id":408,"date":"2009-08-18T00:34:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T00:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/?p=408"},"modified":"2009-08-18T00:34:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-18T00:34:00","slug":"word-case-costs-40m-to-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/2009\/08\/word-case-costs-40m-to-microsoft\/","title":{"rendered":"Word case costs $40M to Microsoft"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-family:arial;\">In the patent-infringement case against Microsoft Word, a Texas judge fined Microsoft $40 million for trial misconduct after a Microsoft attorney attempted to liken plaintiff i4i&#8217;s motives for suing the software giant to banks seeking government bailouts.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-family:arial;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-family:arial;\">During the jury trial in May, Judge Leonard Davis warned attorney Matthew Douglas Powers &#8211; of the Redwood City, Calif., law firm Weil Gotshal &amp; Manges &#8211; that he was misstating the law when he suggested to the jury that i4i was improperly suing Microsoft, not to protect its patent but to just get money.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-family:arial;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"  style=\"font-family:arial;\">more @ http:\/\/blog.seattlepi.com\/microsoft\/archives\/176681.asp?source=rss<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the patent-infringement case against Microsoft Word, a Texas judge fined Microsoft $40 million for trial misconduct after a Microsoft attorney attempted to liken plaintiff i4i&#8217;s motives for suing the software giant to banks seeking government bailouts. During the jury trial in May, Judge Leonard Davis warned attorney Matthew Douglas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ms-news","category-ms-office"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}