Judge orders Microsoft to stop selling Word in US

Just deleted my BBC link (didn't see you beat me).

Anyway from the BBC article (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8197990.stm)

"I4i filed a patent in 1998 that outlined a means for "manipulating the architecture and the content of a document separately from each other" invoking XML as a means allowing users to format text documents."

Well one issue I see: XML 1.0 became a W3C Recommendation on February 10, 1998.

Patent 5787449 (http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT5787449) was filed Jun 2, 1994 and issued Jul 28, 1998. Can they change the patent that late to include XML?

From what I can read the patent is basically describing a system like LaTeX or HTML/CSS anyway.