[JURIST] Microsoft Corporation [corporate website; JURIST news archive] on Friday asked the US Supreme Court [official website] to reconsider a ruling [cert. petition, PDF] of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas [official website] finding that the company committed patent infringement [JURIST report] and awarding Canadian-based software company i4i [corporate website] $290 million dollars in damages. i4i alleged that Microsoft willfully infringed on patents it held on XML technology [i4i litigation database], which Microsoft used extensively in Microsoft Word 2007 and 2003 [Reuters report]. In addition to paying $290 million in damages, Microsoft was enjoined from selling...