The U.S. government is backing i4i in its case against Microsoft that the Supreme Court is expected to hear in April.
Acting Solicitor General Neal Kumar Katyal filed an amicus brief supporting a U.S. Court of Appeal decision and i4i's position on Friday. The brief represents the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
i4i sued Microsoft for patent infringement over an XML-editing feature in Word. The Canadian software developer was awarded $290 million in damages and Microsoft was ordered to make changes to Word.
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