Microsoft is planning its next step after a US judge ordered the company to stop selling a number of versions of its word-processing software called "Word" as the company knowingly violated a patent held by Toronto's i4i Inc.

The court issued a permanent injunction barring Microsoft from selling "Word" in US and ordered the company to give i4i almost 290 million dollars in damages.

i4i Inc. claimed that Microsoft infringed a patent held by it concerning the use of technology that can open documents via XML computer programming language at the time of creation of Word 2003 and Word 2007 software.

Microsoft has approximately two months to comply with the court's ruling.

Loudon Owen also says if Microsoft does not sell the product then his company is fully prepared to sell that.

Microsoft is planning to appeal against the ruling, while Loudon Owen, chairman of i4i wants to sort out the issue with Microsoft.

Speaking on the topic, Loudon Owen said, "We're open to talk about anything."