Must say, it has been a day for some strange kind of legal ‘injunctions’ with RealDVD being held first with a preliminary injunction and now Microsoft being held from selling its very own Word with a permanent injunction. The decision passed by Judge Leonard Davis, of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas prohibits Microsoft from selling or importing any Microsoft Product to the United Sates.

The legal duel which has been on between Microsoft and i4i since the latter filed the lawsuit in March 2007 (for injunction and damages) couldn’t have found a better location than the Eastern District of Texas-a famous shelter for patent litigation.

RealNetworks’ RealDVD is a software that every technology aficionado acknowledges owing to its capability of ripping DVD movies into a computer just as you can rip those CDs. The Software has been marred with a controversy that has now seen a United States District Court passing an injunction order-meaning that the sales of the software have been put on an immediate hold, ‘until’ a decision is made.

Legal restrictions should favor the consumers, but in this case the injunction order passed by Judge Marilyn Patel does exactly the opposite.