How to get big bucks from Redmond: Click, sue, win!
PC World | at | by Mike
The ruling by a Texas judge that Microsoft has to pay more than $240 million in a patent infringement suit has emboldened patent trolls everywhere. Now two more firms have crawled out of the woodwork to sue Microsoft in the same court. The judge may as well put up a Web site that says "Click here to sue Microsoft.
" Judge Leonard Davis, of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas recently ruled that Microsoft had impinged on a patent of i4i covering, "A system and method for the separate manipulation of the architecture and content of a document, particularly for data representation and transformations.