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		steveklabnik on Dec 23, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Court: Microsoft violated patent; can't sell Word I mean, they're not a troll in the way that they're developing their product, but they're a troll in the way that their patent is for a way of editing custom XML. Really?

rbanffy on Dec 23, 2009 [–]

They have declared OpenOffice.org does not infringe. The patent then must be something pretty narrow.

steveklabnik on Dec 23, 2009 | [–]

Here's the patent in question:

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sec...

It's not really.

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