{"id":1024239,"date":"2026-07-28T11:36:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T06:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1024239"},"modified":"2026-07-28T11:36:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T06:06:25","slug":"how-a-case-oracle-lost-14-years-ago-is-troubling-microsoft-forcing-it-to-seek-a-lifeline-from-uks-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/28\/how-a-case-oracle-lost-14-years-ago-is-troubling-microsoft-forcing-it-to-seek-a-lifeline-from-uks-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"How a case Oracle lost 14 years ago is troubling Microsoft, forcing it to seek a lifeline from UK&#8217;s Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2012, Oracle went to the European Court of Justice to stop people reselling its software licences second-hand. It lost. That judgment, known as UsedSoft, settled a simple idea: once you sell someone a perpetual software licence, you cannot control what they do with it afterwards. Fourteen years on, that ruling is proving to be Microsoft&#8217;s biggest problem in a London courtroom.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft has now lost twice in a \u00a3270 million case brought by UK reseller ValueLicensing, and it is asking the Supreme Court for permission to try again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2012, Oracle went to the European Court of Justice to stop people reselling its software licences second-hand. It lost. That judgment, known as UsedSoft, settled a simple idea: once you sell someone a perpetual software licence, you cannot control what they do with it afterwards. Fourteen years on, that ruling is proving to be Microsoft&#8217;s biggest problem in a London courtroom. Microsoft has now lost twice in a \u00a3270 million case brought by UK reseller ValueLicensing, and it is asking the Supreme Court for permission to try again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1024239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1024239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024240,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024239\/revisions\/1024240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}