From $2.8M win to just $6,000, Microsoft’s case against computer retailer crashes to earth

Appeals 2023-01-16 1:35 pm By Sam Matthews | Melbourne

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Microsoft has won a pittance for copyright infringement but copped a “substantial costs order” in its six-year-old intellectual property suit against a Melbourne computer retailer over its Windows 7 software, which previously netted the Silicon Valley giant a $2.8 million payout from Judge Sandy Street that was slammed as a “regrettable” judicial failure.

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