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01 October 2012 • 4 min read

Oracle's recent landmark victory against M-Tech means traders caught importing IT kit into Europe effectively no longer have a legal defence. Doug Woodburn assesses the impact for the channel and end users

A recent UK Supreme Court ruling backing Oracle's right to be the first to bring its kit into the EU could have a devastating impact on a global second-user and surplus kit industry that, arguably,...

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