SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- Microsoft lost a legal round Tuesday when a U.S. appeals court upheld a jury verdict that said it infringed on a Toronto company's patent.
The ruling in San Francisco lets stand a permanent injunction against sales of Microsoft Word that use technology developed by i4i Inc., The Wall Street Journal reported. The technology, "Custom XML," is used to classify documents for retrieval.
The injunction does not affect copies of Office and Word already in users' computers. Microsoft expects to have modified versions of the software available by Jan. 11, a spokesman, Kevin Kutz, said.
Kutz said beta versions of Word and Office 2010 do not contain the software.
Microsoft appealed a $290 million judgment against the company, the injunction and the i4i patent claims, losing all three.
