Microsoft has won one of its biggest victories in its fight against piracy in China after a Shanghai court ordered a local insurer to pay the US software company Rmb2.17m ($318,000) in damages.
The court found Dazhong Insurance, a Shanghai-based insurer backed by Chinese state-owned and listed companies, guilty of infringing Microsoft's intellectual property by using illegal copies of its software.
“This is the first case in which Microsoft has taken a large Chinese company to court over copyright infringement of its software,” Microsoft said. “It is also the case in which Microsoft has been awarded the largest sum in damages in China so far.”