[ga] Is ICANN's IDN ccTLD program threatened?: Chinese Court Rules Microsoft Violated IP Rights

["Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All,

  Is ICANN's recently re-announced IDN ccTLD fastrack program
threatened with China's court ruling?  Perhaps so, unless
this ruling is overturned in appeal.

See:http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/11/17/2220243

"A Beijing court has ruled that Microsoft
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/17/microsoft_china_font_ip_infringement/
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."

Regards,

Jeffrey A. Williams
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