We really don't know if i4i is really just another "patent troll" seeking to extort money out of a big multinational corporation for a technology only vaguely resembling XML which i4i has never successfully put to it's own use.
If it looks like Microsoft will lose on appeal, they will offer i4i a big check to just go away and we will still never know if Microsoft really infringed on the i4i patent or not. Maybe they did and maybe they didn't.
Patent law has never quite formulated how to properly protect software as intellectual property. Until it does, telling the frivolous lawsuit from the legitimate one will continue to be impossible.
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