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Email bomber to be electronically tagged
News David Lennon, 18, was sentenced to a two-month curfew by a judge sitting at Wimbledon Magistrates court. Lennon had originally been cleared of the charges in November 2005, after another judge ruled that it wasn't an offence to overwhelm an email...
[August 23, 2006, 12:40]
Microsoft $1bn schools offer 'would inflict great harm'
News Microsoft's proposed settlement for more than 100 outstanding private antitrust cases against it would inflict "great harm" upon the technology markets, said the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA) in a letter to the judge...
[November 27, 2001, 12:35]
MS must stop bundling IE 4.0
News District Court Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ruled in an interim order that Microsoft must "cease and desist" practices requiring computer manufacturers to bundle Windows 95 with its Internet Explorer browser.
[December 12, 1997, 9:27]
Internet telephony 'is not telecommunications'
News In a 22-page opinion released on Thursday, Minnesota US District Judge Michael J. The industry stands to benefit from an arcane legal distinction drawn by the judge in defining Internet and traditional telephone services.
[October 17, 2003, 16:10]
Lindows barred from the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg
News The company, which sells a version of the Linux operating system intended to mimic Microsoft's Windows, acknowledged on Friday that a Dutch judge had ruled against the company in a Microsoft case claiming that the Lindows name infringes on...
[February 2, 2004, 8:10]
SCO keeps disputed code secret
News IBM last week successfully persuaded the judge presiding over the case to give SCO 30 days to reveal the code that forms the basis for its $3bn (£1.72bn) lawsuit against Big Blue for alleged copyright infringements.
[December 16, 2003, 8:20]
Microtune doubles damages against rival chipmaker
News The judge in the case this week awarded the company $3m in damages as well as attorney's fees that, according to Microtune, could bring the award to between $7m (£4.39m) and $10m. The judge also made permanent an injunction preventing Broadcom from...
[August 18, 2003, 14:30]
Here we go again...
Talkback When the judge ordered Microsoft to offer a version of Windows which did not include Internet Explorer, Microsoft responded that the company would offer manufacturers a choice: one version of Windows that was obsolete, or another that did not work...
[January 26, 2009, 16:29]
Microsoft hits back at Burst.com allegations
News Microsoft was ordered by a US judge last week to produce thousands of emails as part of an investigation into whether the software giant stole intellectual property from Burst.com and used it in Media Player 9.
[September 4, 2003, 12:05]
Court rules against TorrentSpy in hacking case
News But while a US district judge found that the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) had not violated the federal Wiretap Act, as TorrentSpy's attorneys had argued, the MPAA acknowledged in court records that it paid $15,000 (£7,459) to...
[August 29, 2007, 11:05]
Verizon, record labels fight over 'pirate'
News The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has asked a federal judge in Washington, DC, to order Verizon to turn over the name of a Kazaa subscriber who allegedly was sharing copies of more than 600 music recordings.
[October 7, 2002, 8:00]
Lindows fights back against Microsoft
News In December, Microsoft asked a federal judge to bar the company from using the Lindows name, which it claimed could confuse consumers. Lindows said the next step in the lawsuit is a court hearing 27 February in which the judge will hear oral...
[February 18, 2002, 10:51]
Microsoft fires back at Sun in Java case
News In a court filing, the software giant asked a judge for attorney's fees and damages to cover what it characterised as Sun's unlawful violation of a settlement inked in an earlier lawsuit over the Java programming language.
[February 24, 2003, 8:10]
News Burst: DOJ, Microsoft in appeals court tomorrow
News Microsoft asked the three-judge panel to overturn a court order issued late last year by U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson. Microsoft and the Justice Department confront each other tomorrow in the federal appeals court but both sides are...
[April 20, 1998, 11:06]
Microsoft braces for class action suit
News Analyst had been predicting that Microsoft could fall prey to numerous suits in the wake of Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's finding that the company has monopoly power. The judge has yet to issue a final ruling or penalty in the Department of...
[November 22, 1999, 15:04]
Entertainment industry appeals file-swap ruling
News That ruling, made by a Los Angeles federal court judge, Stephen Wilson, came as a sharp blow to copyright holders' strategy of suing peer-to-peer network operators and software developers in order to curb the explosive growth of file trading.
[August 20, 2003, 12:10]
Supreme Court declines Microsoft appeal
News The Redmond, Washington-based software giant had appealed not on the merits of the case but because of comments that US District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson had made to the media. US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly had given both sides...
[October 9, 2001, 15:53]
US Report: AOL dismissed in Drudge case
News District Court Judge, Paul Friedman ruled that AOL and other ISPs can't be held liable for potentially libellous material disseminated by them but created by a third party, throwing out a suit brought by Sidney Blumenthal, a senior aide to...
[April 24, 1998, 8:47]
Microsoft slow to comply with antitrust deal
News District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, largely surrounded the company's progress in developing technical documentation for developers who license the Microsoft Communications Protocol Program. The Justice Department and Microsoft are expected to...
[January 25, 2006, 7:55]
Vonage wins reprieve over customer sign-up
News A few weeks later, US district judge Claude Hilton ordered that Vonage cease adding new customers while it continued to infringe on the patents. In another reprieve for the struggling internet phone company, the decision arrived just hours after a...
[April 25, 2007, 8:52]
