Chinese Court Rules Microsoft Violated IP Rights

angry tapir writes "A Beijing court has ruled that Microsoft violated a Chinese company's intellectual property rights in a case over fonts used in past Windows operating systems. The Beijing Number One Intermediate People's Court ordered Microsoft to stop selling versions of Windows that use the Chinese fonts, including Windows XP. Microsoft plans to appeal the case. Microsoft originally licensed Zhongyi's intellectual property more than a decade ago for use in the Chinese version of Windows 95, according to Zhongyi. Zhongyi argues that agreement applied only to Windows 95, but that Microsoft continued to use the intellectual property in eight versions of Windows from Windows 98 to Windows XP. Vista and Windows 7 are not involved."

Comments

Re:Not really, andnot insightful at all

[shaitand]

"No, it isn't.

As I suspect, you didn't actually have a point, you were just taking a cheap shot at MS.

Sad."

As I suspected, you didn't actually have a point. You just took a cheap shot at China.

Pointing out that one of the parties is a hypocrite does not impact the validity of their claims. So you were right about not having a (valid) point.

Re:No, actually, you're still wrong, and know it

[ifwm]

"I wasn't wrong on any point."

You were wrong on this one, as I've proven.

"As I suspected, you didn't actually have a point. You just took a cheap shot at China."

"How do you expect to be taken seriously in a debate if you can't even be bothered to look who you are replying to."

Says the person to afraid to attach a name to their opinions...

Re:A bit late?

[Runaway1956]

Microsoft's font: http://www.foulmouthshirts.com/New-Shirts/New/images/A10283B-lg.jpg