In the lawsuit between Novell and Microsoft over the block of elements of Wordperfect for Windows 95, the jury, after three days consideration, not a decision come. Novell will probably want the case transferred.
In the lawsuit, in October began, demanded Novell more than a billion dollars in damages from Microsoft because the software company the use and the development of WordPerfect and Quattro Pro, in various ways, would undermine, among other by Word to bundle with Windows 95, the technical information and the elements of the program to block.
The twelve piece jury told the judge in Salt Lake City that they are there after three days of deliberation is not to fulfillment, after which the judge forced the jury to cancel, writes Bloomberg. A member of the jury would have difficulty to reach a decision and the lawyers of Microsoft would not agree with a judgment that does not belong to a unanimous jury verdict is based. “We hope that the jury in a re-treatment to convince that Novells claims are justified,” said a lawyer of the company after the decision on Friday. Microsoft gave disappointed that there is no judgment has come.
Novell was in the mid 90’s, briefly owner of Wordperfect. By the blockages that Microsoft raised would have, would be the market share of the word-processing software have declined from 50 percent in 1990 to 10 percent in 1996.