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- Heading
- Mrs Justice O’Farrell
- Section II - Background to the dispute
- The SDM
- Hercules
- Neon litigation
- Formation of LzLabs and Winsopia
- The ICA
- SDM development and the clean room procedures
- Launch of the SDM
- Project Eiger
- Further development of the SDM
- Audit request and termination
- Section III - The proceedings
- The Issues
- The factual witnesses
- Section IV - Construction of the ICA
- Approach to construction of the ICA
- Scope of licence
- The ICA Programs
- Customer applications
- Licensed Program Specifications
- Independent software vendors (ISVs)
- Debugging tools
- Restrictions on use of ICA Programs
- Legislative framework
- Berne Convention
- TRIPS
- WIPO
- Software Directive
- Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (CDPA)
- Applicable legal principles
- Conclusions on ICA
- Section V - Alleged breaches of the ICA
- Disassembly, decompilation and translation
- Item 2: Load Module Decompiler (“the LMD”) (Paragraph 11.2 of the Technical Particulars)
- Item 3: CICS Control Blocks Document (Paragraph 11.3 of the Technical Particulars)
- Item 4: EXEC DLI (Paragraphs 27.18 & 28.19 of RRRAPOC)
- Item 5: IBM Binder Software (Paragraph 11.4 of the Technical Particulars)
- Compiler listings – summary of the dispute
- Item 6: IGZCIVL COBOL runtime module (Paragraph 11.6 of the Technical Particulars)
- Item 7: CICS Translators (Paragraph 20.1-2 of the Technical Particulars)
- Item 8: Floating point rounding rules (Paragraph 20.3 of the Technical Particulars)
- Item 9: IBM PL/1 compiler (Paragraph 20.4 of the Technical Particulars & Paragraph 27 of the POC)
- Item 10: XML Parse statements (Paragraphs 33-38 of the Technical Particulars)
- Item 11: COBOL initialisation, branching and I/O declaratives (Paragraphs 27.4&27.5 RRRAPOC)
- Item 12: PL/I Condition handling (Paragraphs 27.10-27.12 of RRRAPOC)
- Reverse engineering through the systematic use of traces, dumps, slip traps, packet sniffing and other debugging tools techniques – summary of the dispute
- Item 13: CICS-to-CICS communications (Paragraph 28.1 of the Technical Particulars)
- Item 14: AMBLIST analysis of CICS Stubs (Paragraph 28.2 of the Technical Particulars)
- Item 15: Colesoft z/XDC and COBOL initialisation (Paragraph 28.3 of the Technical Particulars)
- Item 16: XDC and IMS (Paragraph 28.4 of the Technical Particulars)
- Additional examples
- Item 17: SLIP Traps and CICS (Paragraph 28.5 of the Technical Particulars)
- Item 18: SLIP Traps and COBOL (Paragraph 28.6 of the Technical Particulars)
- Macros and Copybooks - introduction
- Macros (Paragraphs 32.1-32.9 of the Technical Particulars) – summary of the dispute
- Item 19: DR-3246 (Paragraph 32.1 of the Technical Particulars)
- Item 20: DR-10237 (Paragraph 32.2 of the Technical Particulars)
- Item 21: DR-2753 (Paragraph 32.3 of the Technical Particulars)
- Item 22: DR-2771 (Paragraph 32.4 of the Technical Particulars)
- Item 23: DR-2796 (Paragraph 32.5 of the Technical Particulars)
- Item 24: DR-3280 (Paragraph 32.6 of the Technical Particulars)
- Item 25: DR-4281 (Paragraph 32.7 of the Technical Particulars)
- Item 26: DR-4322 (Paragraph 32.8 of the Technical Particulars)
- Item 27: DR-0847 (Paragraph 32.9 of the Technical Particulars)
- Macros - discussion
- Copybooks (Paragraphs 2.1.1.3 and 32.10-32.12 of the Technical Particulars) – nature of the dispute
- Item 28: DR-715 (Paragraph 32.10 of the Technical Particulars)
- Item 29: DR-753 (Paragraph 32.11 of the Technical Particulars)
- Item 30: DR-756 (Paragraph 2.1.1.3 of the Technical Particulars)
- Copybooks - discussion
- Transferring “unscrubbed” materials
- Item 31:Epiphany
- Item 32: Db2 Catalog table metadata
- Item 33: DSS dump
- Item 34: Kednos
- Item 35: CSECTs deliberately omitted from scrubbing
- Items 36 and 42: Unscrubbed CSECTs
- Items 37 and 40: IMS PROCLIB & DLIBATCH
- Item 38: DFHEI1 module
- Item 39: IGZXANE
- Item 41: IGZXNE3N
- Item 43: CEEBETBL, CEEBLLST, IBMPINPL & CEESG*
- Item 44: DR-4617
- Item 45: DR-171
- Item 46: Scrubbing failures
- Item 47: @@TRGLOC CSECT
- Item 48: PARMLIB & PROCLIB
- Use outside Enterprise and beyond Designated Machine
- Item 49: Brad Taylor (Paragraph 44.2 of the Technical Particulars)
- Item 50: Winsopia Pizzabox (Paragraph 44.5 of the Technical Particulars)
- Item 51: Justin Bendich (Paragraph 44.6 of the Technical Particulars)
- Conclusions on technical breaches
- Section VI - Wrongful procurement of breach
- Applicable legal principles
- LzLabs
- LzLabs UK
- Claims against the directors
- Mr Moores
- Summary on unlawful procurement
- Section VII - Unlawful means conspiracy
- Applicable legal principles
- Knowledge of unlawfulness
- Summary on unlawful means conspiracy
- Section VIII – Audit and Termination
- Validity of audit request
- Validity of termination
- Section IX - Limitation
- Contractual limitation
- Statutory Limitation
- Deliberate concealment
- Finding - section 32(1)(b)
- Finding - Section 32(2)
- Actual or constructive knowledge – legal principles
- Date of knowledge issues
- ICA 2013
- Mr Knight - 2017
- Mr Anzani - 2018
- Conclusions