7 Nov 2011
The Supreme Court granted leave to appeal with the petition filed by the Microsoft Corporation of USA against the order of the Commercial High Court of Colombo. The Bench comprised Chief Justice Shirani A. Bandaranayake, Justices P. A. Ratnayake and Chandra Ekanayake fixed the matter for hearing on March 14 next year. The High Court in its order had refused to issue the Interim Injunction the Microsoft had sought preventing the proprietor of Media Centre (now Shad’s Digital) Colombo 4 from selling purported unlicensed, pirated copies of Microsoft software in the assembled computers sold by it.