frutiger versus segoe or heidelberger druckmaschinen vs microsoft: declaration of invalidity.

So they threw Microsoft's application out and ordered the company to pay all the fees incurred by Heidelberger Druckmaschinen. The finding raises the larger question of whether Microsoft ever licensed the font at all; and if they did not (and it appears that they did not), will they be on the hook for significant damages if Segoe does indeed show up in the final version of Vista? | arstech

did they act more carefully back then when they cloned helvetica? normally the opinion goes like this:

For better or worse, in many countries—particularly the U.S.—while typeface names can be protected legally, typeface designs themselves are difficult to protect ...

Every typesetting manufacturer had its own Helvetica look-alike. It's quite possible that most of the "Helvetica" seen in the '70s was actually not Helvetica. | the scourge of arial

in general latin fonts differ may not be greater than 5%, i was told.

i be satisfied if the site ist down? the european database sucks, if you don't know exactly what you are looking for and you neurons are not attuned to bureaucracy.

a nice and more human piece of information in another folder

... that makes it now 80.75

the Laboratoire européen d’Anticipation Politique Europe 2020 (LEAP/E2020) ...

-> on the one hand there is the Iranian decision of opening the first oil bourse priced in Euros on March 20th, 2006 in Teheran, available to all oil producers of the region ;

--> on the other hand, there is the decision of the American Federal Reserve to stop publishing M3 figures (the most reliable indicator on the amount of dollars circulating in the world) from March 23, 2006 onward (2020 thinktank)