Software company Novell announced that it has been awarded over
$2 million in a piracy case against a Korean company, Myung Je
which acted as an OEM, or Original Equipment Manufacturer.
An OEM is a company that manufactures and sells a product in its
own name using products from another company.
A US district court in Utah found that Myung Je breached its
agreement with Novell and according to a Novell statement, “used
Novell's trade marks in ways and for purposes not authorised by
Novell, thereby infringing Novell's trade marks. Myung Je also
infringed Novell's copyrights by distributing counterfeit product
and distributing upgrade product to ineligible customers and
distributing unbundled OEM product.”
More than $7.5 billion each year is lost to software piracy,
according to the Business Software Alliance and the Software &
Information Industry Association.
