EU disputes over parallel imports of Microsoft products

[James Love <love@cptech.org>]

This appears to a be a dispute involving parallel imports of Microsoft
products from Canada to France.   A European Judge has ordered the EU
antitrust authorities to investigate.   Jamie

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>From ericb@pobox.com Thu Dec 16 21:13:36 1999
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 18:03:21 -0500 (EST)
From: Eric M. Bennett <ericb@pobox.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list AM-INFO <am-info@essential.org>
Subject: EU may be back in the picture...



http://www.theregister.co.uk/991216-000013.html

Court tells EU to reopen MS antitrust investigation

A French software reseller may have forced the European Commission to 
reopen an investigation into Microsoft, following a decision by a 
European court earlier today. The Commission dismissed a complaint 
made to it by Micro Leader Business in 1996 last year, but the EU's 
lower court, the Court of First Instance, has now ruled that it was 
wrong to do so.

Micro Leader had been importing French-language Microsoft software 
from Canada, but was blocked from doing so by Microsoft. The French 
company claims that this was a violation of European antitrust rules, 
as the move stopped the company from competing with Microsoft's 
'official' French channel.


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Eric Bennett / ericb@pobox.com / emb22@cornell.edu  www.pobox.com/~ericb/
Cornell University, Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology

I have no idea what you're talking about when you say "ask".
- Bill Gates, in his deposition for the U.S. vs. Microsoft lawsuit


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James Love 
Center for Study of Responsive Law | Consumer Project on Technology 
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