Microsoft has been ordered to pay USD200m (GBP126m) in damages to a Canadian software company after being found guilty of patent infringement by the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.
The Toronto-based company in question, i4i, originally filed the suit in 2007.
According to the verdict, Microsoft is guilty of wilfully infringing an XML related patent in its Word 2003 and Word 2007 applications.
The court saw emails showing that Microsoft knew they were aware of the patent infringement, but intended to carry on regardless, according to i4i.
Microsoft, however, has denied any wrong-doing, and is planning to appeal against the verdict. Speaking to Reuters about the matter, a spokesperson for the software giant announced:
"The evidence clearly demonstrated that we do not infringe and that the i4i patent is invalid. We believe this award of damages is legally and factually unsupported, so we will ask the court to overturn the verdict."
Microsoft is also currently appealing a verdict delivered in April which found it guilty of infringing patents relating to Uniloc Inc's anti-piracy technologies. Uniloc was awarded USD388m (GBP245m) in damages.
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