Microsoft Loses China Appeal on Font Copyright, Zhongyi Says
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Microsoft Corp. lost an appeal of a three-year-old Beijing court ruling that it exceeded the scope of a licensing agreement for Chinese fonts, according to rights holder Zhongyi Electronic Ltd.
The Beijing Higher People’s Court upheld a November 2009 judgment that Microsoft infringed Zhongyi’s rights for Chinese character fonts, the Chinese company said in an e-mailed statement yesterday. “We respect the court’s decision but continue to believe our fonts licensing agreement with Zhongyi should have granted us perpetual rights to the fonts at issue,” Microsoft said in an e-mailed statement yesterday.