Oracle Wins U.K. Supreme Court Ruling Over Marketing in EU
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Oracle Corp., the world’s largest database maker, won a U.K. Supreme Court ruling protecting its right to be first to market its hardware in the European Union before third-party resellers may do so.
The judgment today in London reversed a Court of Appeal ruling in favor of M-Tech Data Ltd., which was sued by Sun Microsystems Inc. in 2009 for importing Sun disk drives into the EU after Sun sold them in China, Chile and the U.S. Sun, purchased in 2010 by Oracle, may be first to market its goods in the EU under an “economically controversial, but legally well-established policy,” even if it had previously sold the products elsewhere, the Supreme Court ruled.