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Microsoft Sues Cheap Tech Guys LLC for Copyright and Trademark Infringement

Microsoft Corporation sued Nevada-based Cheap Tech Guys LLC last week for trademark and copyright infringement over its alleged sale of unlicensed Microsoft software products. The complaint about injunctive relief and damages claimed that Cheap Tech Guys sells “decoupled product keys,” and directs its customers to download and activate counterfeit copies of Microsoft software.

The filing argued that Cheap Tech Guys “is a prolific distributor of black market Microsoft product activation keys for Microsoft software which it unlawfully advertises to consumers as genuine Microsoft software.” The complaint explained that in 2019 and 2020, Microsoft investigators purchased software from the defendant’s website, cheaptechguys.com.

Reportedly, Cheap Tech Guys supplied the plaintiff’s investigators with decoupled product keys that neither it nor its customers were licensed to use to install the advertised software program and a link to an unauthorized Microsoft download site for installation. As a result, the filing contended, Cheap Tech Guys “willfully contributes to the infringement of Microsoft’s copyright-protected software by directing its customers to download and activate unlicensed copies of Microsoft software.”

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