China Company Plans to Appeal Microsoft Decision

BEIJING—A Chinese insurance company said Friday it will appeal a court order to pay damages to Microsoft Corp. for intellectual property infringement, and accused the software giant of acting in a monopolistic manner.

A Shanghai court on Thursday ordered Dazhong Insurance Co. to pay 2.17 million yuan ($318,000) to Microsoft for using unlicensed copies of the U.S. company's software. Microsoft said the verdict was its biggest legal victory in China, the world's second-largest personal-computer market after the U.S. but one where software piracy is rampant.

source: Wall Street Journal