A most discussed legal affair in August 2009 is a permanent ban on recent version of Microsoft Word has been issued by US district court in Texas. This ban was declared in August which restricted the world’s biggest software maker from selling their new version of Word.
A Technology firm based on Toronto known as I4i has filed a copyright issue in court.
If the claim will proved then the injunction could stop selling process of any version of Word 2003 and 2007 by Microsoft. If this will happen, Microsoft has to make some significance changes in new version of Microsoft Word in 2010.
The decision of injunction was taken in May in favor of I4i and awarded US $290 million damage by US district court in Texas. The US court granted appeal of stay order and hearing will be on 23 September 2009.
Microsoft officially appealed to judgment that the arguments may cause severe harm to their business, because Word is big revenue (i.e. $3 billion in a fiscal year) generator product for Microsoft and it is used by millions of users.
Already sold copies of Word are not affected by this issue. But the manufacturer, retailers and dealers are facing disrupt in their business because of injunction. Some dealers who sell computers with software get affected due to issue.
Dell and Hewlett-Packard, the largest customer of Microsoft supported to the Microsoft appeal for stay on injunction. Some more companies argue that injunction would harm their businesses too.
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A stay order granted for Microsoft Word injunction
A Family Battle for L’Oreal Fortune
A Chief share holder Liliane Bettencourt of the famous cosmetic company L’Oreal has a bitter battle in family for billions fortune. Her Daughter Francoise Bettencourt-Meyers has taken a legal action against a society photographer for accepting gift worth €1 billion from her 86 year old mother. This legal action was taken in court of Nanterre in west of Paris. The judge of court is baffled that whether Ms Bettencourt-Meyer sued on photographer or a criminal complaint made against Francois-Marie Banier.
Ms Meyer claim that Mr. Banier, 62, purportedly manipulating her mother who is mentally fragile. On 3 September 2009, the lawyers were discussed about mental health of one of European greatest fortune Ms Bettencourt.
The judge found a cause for proceeding because the investors found that Mr. Banier had accepted gifts and cheques worth $1.6 billion from 1996. In these gifts some good paintings of Matisse and Picasso are included; Mr. Banier was also requested for funds because Mr. Banier is a member of New York and Paris art world; this is reported by staff of Ms Bettencourt’s house of Neuilly-Sur-Seine.
Ms Bettencourt-Meyers said in criminal offence that Mr. Banier is making use of her mother’s weakness because her mother is thinking to share her facilities and rights of €11 billion fortune in her intimates. The prosecutor raises the point against Ms Bettencourt-Meyers that Ms Bettencourt had not put her words against Mr. Banier so her daughter have no rights to take any legal action.
Ms Bettencourt is a wealthiest woman in France and listed 21st rich person. As per French Republic very near become the Queen. Her wealth is inherited from her father Eugene Schueller, L’Oreal founder in 1909.
The war in between Ms Bettencourt-Meyers and Mr. Banier going from long time and the next case scheduled for September, 2009.