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Feb. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Barnes & Magnificent Inc. should win a patent-infringement case brought by Microsoft Corp. that threatens to put an end imports of the bookseller’s Nook e-reader, according to workforce of the U.S. trade agency hearing the dispute.
Jeff Hsu, a staff attorney at the U.S. Cosmopolitan Trade Commission, said yesterday in an interview he is recommending that ITC Rule Theodore Essex find there was no violation by Barnes & Noble of three Microsoft patents. The guidance came in a trial beginning yesterday in Washington.
Essex is scheduled to unloosing his findings April 27, and a decision in Microsoft’s favor could leading lady to a ban on imports of Nook readers made outside the U.S. The staff acts as a third cocktail in the case, and there’s no requirement that the judge follow the recommendation.
Source: BusinessWeek