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Microsoft to EU Commission: We're Not the Bad Guy; You Are [MS Doc as Text]

By Pamela Jones et al.

Sean Daly has kindly prepared a text version of the EU-LEX notice of Microsoft's complaint against the EU Commission, found in the latest EU Official Journal.

Microsoft says the fine announced in February is too high. It should be annulled, and if not, they ask that it be reduced. Oh, and it would like the EU Commission to pay costs. Yes, the EU Commission is the defendant. It seems it neglected to believe Microsoft's experts about how valuable its patents are. And it accuses the Commission of accepting reports from the trustee, whom Microsoft hand-picked, by the way, based on "documents obtained through powers of investigation that the Court of First Instance held to be unlawful." Whoah. No more Mr. Nice Guy for Microsoft, I see.

Note that this is news to us, but not to the EU Commission, as this action was brought May 9th. So. Here we go again.

Full post as published by Groklaw on July 07, 2008 (boomark / email).