SpecTec Wins IP Infringement Case Against MirTac in Netherlands

Case was heard by a court in The Hague.

SpecTec, creators of the AMOS Planned Maintenance and Quality Management software have successfully proven their case against Mirtac BV for infringement of the AMOS intellectual property rights. The case was heard by a court in The Hague. Mirtac were the former agents in the Netherlands for the AMOS software and the case showed that they continued to sell the software without informing SpecTec and without registering the software or paying the license fees for the software installed. The case has been ongoing for nearly 2 years and the infringements were brought to light by a number of customers who contacted SpecTec for support and were found to have unregistered software. The cases cover the entire span of Mirtac's business from when the company was first registered until SpecTec took legal steps. Subsequently further illegal copies of AMOS software were found with other companies who had been supplied by Mirtac.

SpecTec's Chief Information Officer, Paul Ashton, said today, "SpecTec is very pleased that the Dutch court has ruled for SpecTec in this infringement of our intellectual property. Intellectual Property cases show that companies buying software should ensure that they are purchasing correctly licensed software. Purchasing software that is not legal means that they are using systems illegally themselves. As far it concerns the software itself, there is the risk that they are older versions of the software that are installed and of course using unregistered software means companies will not be able to get upgrades. It is clear that companies should make their choices of software provider carefully."