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No, you read it right.  A court in Texas issued Microsoft a permanent injunction, banning it from selling or importing any Microsoft Word products to the U.S. that have capability of opening .XML, .DOX, or DOCM files (XML).  And Microsoft was ordered to pay up $290 million to boot.

The order stems from a patent infringement action brought by Canadian company i4i.  The Toronto-based company claimed that Microsoft's word processing software infringed on its patent by using a built-in XML editor to display information.

An obscure company known as Tune Hunter has sued some big names in technology, including Apple and AT&T, for patent infringement, claiming that their promotion of the Shazam application violates Tune Hunter's patent for a music identification system. 

Tune Hunter also sued the company that makes Shazam, as well as Samsung, Amazon.com, Napster, Motorola, Verizon and others.