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Judgment of the Tribunal concerning the trial of two preliminary issues in a claim brought by JJH Enterprises Limited (trading as ValueLicensing) against Microsoft.
ValueLicensing dispute probes whether Office counts as a creative work.
Long-running fight between Microsoft and ValueLicensing ramps up again.
Microsoft and the software reseller ValueLicensing have been going at each other for a while now, but the outcome of the latest trial that's starting up in the UK could have real ramifications on the second-hand software market.
Microsoft urged a tribunal on Wednesday to reject a software reseller's claim that the technology giant owes £270 million ($365 million) for restricting the rights of software companies to resell software they have licenced from Microsoft.