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MikeRoweSoft garners funds to fight back

Mike Rowe has decided to fight back after Microsoft threatened him with legal action for registering mikerowesoft.com. Meanwhile, domain-name speculators are lining up Read more

20 January, 2004 by Munir Kotadia

Microsoft lawyer: Open-source war is over

The software maker's top IP lawyer has said that the distinction between open-source and commercial software has largely disappeared Read more

20 October, 2008 by Ina Fried

Microsoft: Open source violates 235 patents

Top Microsoft lawyer alleges in a magazine interview that the Linux kernel and OpenOffice... Read more

14 May, 2007 by Ina Fried and Stephen Shankland

Bush's EU man attacked for Microsoft links

The nomination of a pro-Microsoft lawyer to represent US interests in the EU has angered the Free... Read more

8 August, 2005 by Ingrid Marson

TomTom countersues Microsoft with patent claim

...four patents it owns related to vehicle-navigation software. In a statement, Microsoft lawyer Horacio Gutierrez said the company is still in the process of... Read more

20 March, 2009 by Erica Ogg

Microsoft: 5,000 US patents and counting

...filing rate is unlikely to climb much higher, said Bart Eppenauer, the Microsoft lawyer who heads the company's patent effort. "Three thousand is an... Read more

7 March, 2006 by Ina Fried

Microsoft-Google battle kicks off

After weeks of skirmishes, the legal battle between the two firms has finally started in earnest with high-profile lawyers sparring in the courtroom Read more

7 September, 2005 by Ina Fried

Microsoft sues Google

The search giant sits accused of poaching a top Microsoft executive to run its newly expanded Chinese operation Read more

20 July, 2005 by Ina Fried

Expert: Windows can be broken into parts

...testimony to the court, after which he was cross-examined by a Microsoft lawyer. Appel is the second-to-last witness that trustbusters will present... Read more

11 April, 2002 by Joe Wilcox

Microsoft: It's all a conspiracy against us

...and IBM all joining forces "for a coordinated attack on Microsoft". The Microsoft lawyer heartily denied that there was any specific tying of the Internet... Read more

22 September, 1999 by Randy Barrett

Microsoft on Trial: Microsoft wants case dropped...

...were slightly less dramatic. As he had for the past several days, Microsoft lawyer Michael Lacovara continued to pick at the 90 pages of direct... Read more

25 November, 1998 by Will Rodger

US Report: Microsoft homes in on Netscape/AOL talks

...what opposing lawyers claim are delaying tactics. To drive home their point, Microsoft lawyer John Warden dug up a May 1996 memo, written nearly two... Read more

30 October, 1998 by Will Rodger

Microsoft on trial: Tempers grow short in courtroom

The gloves started coming off Wednesday as Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale and Microsoft lead litigator John Warden duelled for a second day of cross-examination in the Microsoft antitrust trial. Read more

22 October, 1998 by Michael Moeller

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