Supreme Court Dismissed Four Year Old Patent Clash Between I4i and Microsoft

The Supreme Court finally declared its decision on the four-years-old patent clash between Microsoft and a Canadian Software I4i Company, the decision was in favor of I4i. As per the case, Microsoft was accused of violating the patent belonging to the company I4i.

The court ordered Microsoft to alter its Word program and pay i4i a compensation of $300 million. The accused has been given a chance to provide court with justified evidence to prove that the patent in discussion was untrue. The court had refused to Microsoft’s first appeal of Section 282 of the Patent Act of 1952, which claimed that Microsoft needed to provide court with half of the evidences to declare the patent case as invalid. In defense Microsoft also claimed that the company I4i had charged for the rights of patent a year after its launch, which was considered invalid as per Section 102b of the Patent Act.

The software in dispute was I4i's S4 editing software, but there was disagreement over whether or not this software made use of the patent in question, so Microsoft lost its argument by not being able to provide the level of evidence needed to discredit I4i's patent claims.