By Steven Musil CNET News.com
Posted on ZDNet News: Sep 04, 2009 4:17:53 AM

Microsoft has been granted a stay of a landmark injunction in a patent-infringement case that would have required the software giant to stop selling Word in its current form by next month.

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Thursday granted Microsoft's motion for a stay, pending appeal, of an injunction issued in August by a federal judge that bars sales of Word that include a custom XML code found to infringe on patents held by the plaintiff, i4i.

"We are happy with the result and look forward to presenting our arguments on the main issues on 23 September," Microsoft spokesman Kevin Kutz said in a statement...

So MS doesn't have to stop selling Word in its current form (at least for now). You can see the entire article on ZDNet, here: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-338962.html?tag=nl.e589