Despite the fact that Microsoft has complied with the court’s injunction barring the sales of certain contentious versions of its Word software, which the court said infringed on technology patented by Toronto-based i4i, the software maker still intends continuing its legal efforts to overturn the court’s ruling.

After losing the legal battle to i4i winning, which won a $290 million judgment and the court’s injunction order against Word software, Microsoft also lost its appeal against the court’s verdict, on December 22, 2009. Though the company has decided to abide by the order, as of now, it filed a new legal challenge last week, urging the court to review the appeal ruling another time.

Kevin Kutz, Microsoft’s director of public affairs, said in a recent statement: “The petition details significant conflicts we believe the December 22 decision creates with established precedents governing trial procedure and the determination of damages.”

Nonetheless, in accordance with the court order that gave Microsoft the January 11 deadline for removing the disputed XML customization feature from its Word software, Microsoft Monday removed most versions of the software from its online store.

The contentious Word 2007 and Office 2007 versions have been modified by the company. Furthermore, Microsoft has also issued patches for the removal of the infringing technology from the existing copies of Word for both Windows and Mac.