$200 million charged on Microsoft to pay in fine to i4i Ltd

According to Microsoft Corp a Texas federal jury issued an order for Microsoft to pay Canadian software firm i4i Ltd $200 million for patent infringement.

Microsoft Corp, the world's largest software company, which is involved in a number of legal battles over patents, declared about its disagreement with such “an unsupported award” and it plans to appeal.

Toronto-based i4i is a privately held maker of software for manipulating documents. In 2007 it brought an action against Microsoft claiming that Microsoft knowingly infringed one of its patents in its Word processing application and its Vista operating system. Microsoft denied that infringement. 

"The evidence clearly demonstrated that we do not infringe and that the i4i patent is invalid," a Microsoft spokesman said. As they believe that Texas federal jury’s award of damages is legally and factually unsupported. So, they plan to ask the court to review the verdict.

Last month Microsoft was ordered to pay $388 million again for patent infringement. The patent was held by Uniloc Inc, anti-piracy software maker. As it was in the case of i4i, Microsoft is also appealing that verdict.