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13:33 12th August 2009
A US judge has ruled against Microsoft in a case that prohibits the software giant from selling its premium product, Word.
Microsoft is embroiled in a legal battle with i4i, a company that claimed its patented method of opening certain files had been infringed.
Judge Leonard Davis has now forbidden the sale of any Word products that could open XML, .DOCX or DOCM files (XML files) containing custom XML.
It was ruled in May that the ability to custom tag XML in Microsoft's Word 2003 breached patent law.
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Because Microsoft fell foul of the regulations, it was billed $200 million (£121 million) in the first instance and has now been fined a further $40 million (£20 million).
In related news, the European Union (EU) has been criticised for not disclosing a meeting it had with US computer maker Dell.
In a review of the European commission's 2006 action against chip maker Intel - which resulted in the company paying a €1.06 billion fine - it was revealed investigators failed to take notes, the Wall Street Journal reports.
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