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Microsoft must face UK damages claim over software licensing, ValueLicensing tells judge

By Simon Zekaria ( March 31, 2022, 15:26 GMT | Insight) -- Microsoft must face a UK damages claim from ValueLicensing over software license deals because its UK business behaved anticompetitively and is part of the same economic entity as its US and Irish operations, the claimant told a UK judge today. As a court hearing wrapped, ValueLicensing, which seeks a payout of hundreds of millions of pounds over alleged lost sales of Microsoft programs, responded to Microsoft's bid to quash the action.Microsoft must face a UK damages claim from ValueLicensing over software license deals because its UK business behaved anticompetitively and is part of the same economic entity as its US and Irish operations, the claimant told a UK judge today. ...

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