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Appeal underway against Eolas ruling
News Microsoft filed its appeal, as the US Patent and Trademark Office is pursuing a re-examination of the UC patent. The contents of the appeal were what we expected," university spokesman Trey Davis said.
[June 9, 2004, 9:05]
Microsoft launches second EC appeal
News Microsoft was expected to launch an appeal against the fine, after insisting that it had met the EC's demands. As Microsoft said in July, we would appeal the fines imposed on the company at that time.
[October 4, 2006, 13:30]
NASA Hacker McKinnon gets appeal extension
Blog This follows McKinnon being denied the right to appeal to the UK Supreme Court, which would normally trigger a fourteen day window for an appeal to the European Court in Strasbourg. Home Secretary Alan Johnson has agreed to delay the final deadline...
[October 18, 2009, 13:37]
Microsoft's Sun deal 'will not affect EU appeal'
News One European competition lawyer said that the Court of First Instance, to which Microsoft will make its appeal in 60 days, could view the settlement with Sun as proof that the Competition Commission's concerns over the future implications of...
[April 5, 2004, 17:20]
Latest Linux kernel holds appeal for IT
News The companies that sell commercial versions of Linux are hoping to expand Linux' appeal to large, medium-sized and even smaller corporations by making it more business and user-friendly. The biggest addition to the release of Linux kernel 2.4.1 is...
[January 31, 2001, 8:16]
Microsoft to appeal Japanese antitrust ruling
News Microsoft on Monday said it will appeal a ruling by the Japanese Fair Trade Commission that the software maker's contracts with computer makers violate that country's antitrust law. The decision to reject the ruling follows Microsoft's decision to...
[July 27, 2004, 10:15]
Pirate Bay confirms it has filed appeal
News Administrators of the court in Sweden did not immediately respond to requests to confirm the filing of the appeal. Days after four defendants in the high-profile Pirate Bay case were found guilty of violating copyright law, the website implored...
[April 21, 2009, 9:53]
Government stands firm over 3G licence appeal
News Government officials are insisting that last year's 3G licence auction was not unlawful, as BT and One2One try to persuade the Court of Appeal that they were treated badly. The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), which ran last year's auction...
[June 19, 2001, 15:41]
Lords to consider Nasa hacker appeal
News Gary McKinnon, the Briton who has admitted hacking into Nasa's computer systems, may be able to appeal to the House of Lords against his extradition to the US. According to a firm of solicitors acting on behalf McKinnon, the law lords will consider...
[August 1, 2007, 12:52]
NatWest's WAP services will appeal to all
News WAP banking services will play a key role in the bank's portfolio, and it expects them to appeal to "everyone from the small businessman to the working mum", according to the spokesman. High street bank NatWest announced its WAP banking service on...
[February 18, 2000, 15:02]
Microsoft to appeal EU fine
News Microsoft is to appeal in the European courts against the European Commission's decision to fine it €280.5m, one of Microsoft's top lawyers announced on Wednesday afternoon. We have great respect for the EC, but we don't believe the magnitude of...
[July 12, 2006, 15:20]
EU court crushes Microsoft's antitrust appeal
News Microsoft has not indicated whether it will pursue an appeal of Monday's verdict to the European Court of Justice, the highest court in Europe. A European court dealt a severe blow to Microsoft's competitive ambitions in Europe on Monday by siding...
[September 17, 2007, 9:21]
Microsoft prepares EU appeal
News Microsoft plans to file next week its formal appeal of a European Union ruling that the software giant violated antitrust law and should be fined and made to curtail its business practices. Microsoft had vowed to appeal as soon as the decision was...
[June 3, 2004, 9:15]
Nasa hacker granted Lords appeal
News Gary McKinnon, the Briton who has admitted hacking into Nasa's computer systems, has been given leave to appeal against extradition to the US. McKinnon was granted leave on Thursday to appeal to the Law Lords, a group of senior UK judges, on the...
[October 15, 2007, 17:51]
HP will appeal Cornell University decision
Blog HP on Friday said it had filed an appeal in a patent dispute with Cornell University and the Cornell Research Foundation. Last month, the US District Court cut the amount that a jury had earlier imposed on the company from $184 million to $53...
[April 15, 2009, 16:04]
Judges put end to Napster appeal
News Responding to another petition, a larger group of judges also declined to review the matter in a so-called en banc appeal. A federal appeals court has determined that Napster must continue to block the swapping of copyrighted music, marking the...
[June 26, 2001, 7:21]
Venezuela and India appeal OOXML ratification
News After the two-month appeal period, we now have four appeals — Brazil, India, South Africa and Venezuela," Jonathan Buck, the director of communications for IEC, told ZDNet.co.uk on Monday. The process is open, and countries have the right to appeal.
[June 2, 2008, 13:43]
Microsoft wins antitrust appeal
News He stayed that order and restrictions on Microsoft's business practices pending appeal. One choice is to appeal the case to the Supreme Court, but University of Baltimore Law School professor Bob Lande and Andy Gavil, an antitrust professor at...
[June 28, 2001, 17:19]
Contractors lose IR35 appeal
News The Court of Appeal ruled on Friday morning that IR35, the controversial tax on self-employed contractors, is not illegal, rejecting claims from the Professional Contractors Group (PCG) that the legislation broke European law.
[December 21, 2001, 10:55]
Internet Explorer patent-violation appeal dismissed
News The US Supreme Court will not hear Microsoft's appeal in a lawsuit that has resulted in a preliminary jury verdict of more than $500m for alleged patent infringement in Internet Explorer. The court's decision not to hear the case involving Eolas...
[November 1, 2005, 8:40]
