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Court Ruling Could Make Microsoft Bolder Than Ever
News In Thursday's ruling, the appeals court threw the tying question back to a lower court and set new standards in order for the government to prove illegal product tying. It's rather bold to do that while that very issue is being litigated in the...
[June 29, 2001, 9:04]
FAQ: What The Appeals Court's Ruling Means
News ZDNet UK addresses key questions about the appeals court's decision not to break up software giant Microsoft. Several steps will follow, starting with the remedy portion returning to the trial court but reassigned to a different judge.
[June 29, 2001, 9:29]
Bloggers Celebrate Court Ruling
News EFF attorney Lee Tien, who co-authored the San Francisco-based group's 2004 brief, applauded the ruling, but said the case never should have had to reach the state Supreme Court level. In a victory for bloggers, newsgroup participants and other web...
[November 21, 2006, 8:11]
Mobile Phone Campaigners Welcome Court Ruling
News Campaigners fighting against the erection of mobile phone masts in north London are celebrating a high court ruling that they hope could mean that applications for new masts can be rejected because of health concerns.
[June 28, 2002, 17:20]
Google Upbeat Over Court Ruling
News Tuesday's preliminary court ruling in the battle over Dr Kai-Fu Lee has been welcomed by Google. In a 13-page ruling released on Tuesday, Judge Steven Gonzalez restricted Lee to recruiting for Google in China and to talking to government officials...
[September 14, 2005, 17:45]
EU Sets Court Date For Microsoft Ruling
News The commission will be hoping that it has managed to draft a ruling that it will stand up in court. Microsoft's first action will undoubtedly be to ask the EU Court of First Instance to suspend the ruling until its long, drawn-out case with the EU...
[March 16, 2004, 16:20]
File-swap Ruling Heads Back To Court
News We believe [Grokster and Streamcast] are operating just like Napster and fall under the Napster ruling that the court handed down three years ago," Motion Picture Association of America attorney David Kendall said.
[February 3, 2004, 8:05]
EU Sets Court Date For Microsoft Ruling
Talkback If I were Bill Gates I would say FINE. Use any operating software you would like. Then I would say when ever you decide to use Microsoft the $$ will be double!
[March 16, 2004, 16:48]
EU Sets Court Date For Microsoft Ruling
Talkback Why are Microsoft so worried about the prospect of competing with Real Networks, Apple Quicktime, etc? Surely if their media player software's so good it should be able to stand on its own two feet? Suddenly the desperation seems obvious.
[March 17, 2004, 9:45]
Microsoft Ruling: Court's Decision
News The Luxembourg-based Court of First Instance overturns the appeal of the software giant and orders it to pay a €497m (£344m) fine originally levied by the EU executive in 2004.
[September 18, 2007, 16:57]
Microsoft Ruling: EU Court Statement
News The European Court of First Instance said on Monday that it upheld the European Commission's antitrust decision against Microsoft, in what could prove to be a crucial regulatory landmark. The Court dismissed Microsoft's appeal on all substantive...
[September 17, 2007, 10:07]
EFF Appeals Apple Trade Secret Decision
News The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) said Tuesday that it has appealed a court ruling that could force Apple fan sites to give up their confidential sources to the company. But in his ruling, Superior Court Judge James P.
[March 23, 2005, 11:55]
Napster In Court To Plead For Future
News The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals is in the process of deciding whether to uphold a lower court ruling that would shut down the controversial file-swapping site. But just hours before Patel's ruling was set to take effect, a two-judge appeals...
[October 2, 2000, 8:26]
Vonage Seeks Retrial In Verizon Patent Case
News A pivotal US Supreme Court ruling designed to make it easier to challenge obvious patents prompted Vonage on Tuesday to ask for a new trial in an ongoing dispute with Verizon. In a statement, Vonage chief legal officer Sharon O'Leary said...
[May 2, 2007, 8:15]
Microsoft Wins Antitrust Appeal
News Handing Microsoft a major victory in its antitrust case, a federal appeals court has vacated a lower court's ruling calling for the breakup of the software titan. Thursday's decision was not entirely surprising, although most court watchers did not...
[June 28, 2001, 17:19]
Ruling Boosts Microsoft Shares
News Microsoft investors cheered Thursday after a long-awaited federal appeals court ruling that reversed a judge's decision to split the software giant into two pieces. Henry Blodget, a Merrill Lynch analyst, said the court's ruling was slightly...
[June 29, 2001, 9:19]
Internet Case Overturns European Data Directive
News The Swedish Supreme Court overturned the European Data Protection Directive on Tuesday by ruling that a person who posted libellous material about several Swedish banks on the Internet was merely exercising his freedom of speech.
[July 18, 2001, 13:51]
Novell Defeats SCO In Unix Copyright Case
News A US federal court judge has ruled that Novell, and not the SCO Group, is the rightful owner of copyrights covering the Unix operating system, a ruling that should have a major effect on a number of lawsuits, including SCO's actions against Novell...
[August 13, 2007, 8:36]
Kazaa Owner Takes Heart From US Copyright Ruling
News Sharman Networks, parent company of the peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing software Kazaa, is rejoicing at the US court ruling that found two similar P2P programs, Grokster and Morpheus, do not violate US copyright law.
[August 20, 2004, 10:00]
Court Favours Microsoft In Alcatel-Lucent Case
News A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court ruling that Microsoft need not pay damages to Alcatel-Lucent in a long-running patent dispute, in a case that could have opened up a broad range of litigation over the MP3 music format.
[September 26, 2008, 8:57]
