Microsoft on Tuesday announced a settlement with one of its disc replication partners, after the company admitted it had breached agreements with Microsoft by unlawfully producing the Redmond company's server software.
A multi-year investigation found that the Thai office of MPO Group relied on a forged licensing agreement provided to it by a counterfeiter who had 20,000 copies of Microsoft Exchange and SQL Server produced in 2003. Microsoft said it does not license software to be reproduced in this way.
Some of the discs have since been confiscated in court-authorized searches and test purchases. By producing the discs for a third-party, MPO committed both trademark and license infringement, and breached its agreement with Microsoft, the company said.
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