{"id":550935,"date":"2006-11-27T13:17:13","date_gmt":"2006-11-27T13:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/550935-software-blow-for-microsoft.html"},"modified":"2006-11-27T13:17:13","modified_gmt":"2006-11-27T13:17:13","slug":"software-blow-for-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/550935-software-blow-for-microsoft.html","title":{"rendered":"Software blow for Microsoft"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Supreme Court in a ruling last week rejected a request from Microsoft to nullify patents obtained by Hankuk Aviation University professor Lee Keung-Hae in 1997. <\/font><\/p>\n

The court ruled that the patents apply to technologies which automatically switch the input mode between Korean and English. <\/font><\/p>\n

In 2000, Lee and the company acting as his agent – P and IB – filed a damages suit against Microsoft Korea for patent infringement but the case remained unsettled at an appeals court after the US company filed a separate lawsuit insisting the patents should be invalidated. <\/font><\/p>\n

"The decision on Friday will strengthen our position in a fight to win the pending damages suit," P and IB head Kim Kil-Hae told AFP. <\/font><\/p>\n

"Microsoft has used our technologies without paying software royalties to our side," he said. <\/font><\/p>\n

"Microsft should stop selling its Office suite incorporating the language-switch solution and accept our demand for compensation," he said, estimating the amount due from Microsoft to be 70bn won ($75m). <\/font><\/p>\n

Microsoft refused to accept the demand. <\/font><\/p>\n

"We already filed another lawsuit last week with new evidence showing the related technologies are nothing new and contained in old papers," its Korean lawyer Chung Jae-Hoon told AFP. <\/font><\/p>\n

Microsoft has been locked in a string of costly disputes with rivals in the United States, South Korea and Europe. <\/font><\/p>\n

In May, South Korea’s anti-trust body ruled that Microsoft had breached antitrust laws by selling its Windows operating system bundled with its media player and instant messaging programs. <\/font><\/p>\n

The European Commission ruled in March 2004 that Microsoft should sell its Windows system without the media player software to ensure fair competition with European rivals. <\/font><\/p>\n

In October last year, Microsoft agreed to pay $761m to RealNetworks, a US firm marketing the "RealPlayer" audio-visual software. <\/font><\/p>\n

A month later, Microsoft sealed a $30m deal with South Korea’s top internet portal Daum to end a legal battle over the bundling of Messenger with Windows.<\/font><\/p>\n

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