The Los Angeles Superior Court has prohibited an Indian Apparel Exporter (Pratibha Syntex) from using unlicensed software or reproducing any part of a copyrighted software programme without the permission of the legitimate copyright holder, and further required the company to perform four complete audits of the software on their computers and fix any violations within one and half months.
On the other side, interpreting the judgement in a different way, Ashok Jain, Head, Legal and Commercial, Pratibha Syntex Ltd. (PSL) said, “Pratibha Syntex Ltd. did not engage in any illegal business practices that disadvantaged California garment companies. In addition, our company maintains that the California Attorney General did not have jurisdiction to apply the California Unfair Competition Law extra-territorially to conduct which is occurring in another sovereign nation, and a motion to dismiss the action was pending at the time of settlement.
The judgment, which
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