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Microsoft Trial Misconduct Cost $40 Million
Judge who banned MS Word sales in U.S. added extra penalty to jury's $200 million award after Redmond lawyer compared plaintiff i4i to TARP recipients.
The jury earlier this year found that Microsoft Word violates an XML editing patent held by Toronto-based i4i.