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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. In Thursday's unanimous decision, a federal appeals court vacated that order and sent...
[June 28, 2001, 17:19]
Judges put end to Napster appeal
News A federal appeals court has determined that Napster must continue to block the swapping of copyrighted music, marking the latest legal setback for the fading online service. In a terse, two-page order released Friday, the 9th US Circuit Court of...
[June 26, 2001, 7:21]
Microsoft to make case in Word injunction appeal
News Both Microsoft and i4i have made their arguments, and it is now up to the federal appeals court to weigh those positions. Microsoft is scheduled on Wednesday to appear in a US appeals court to make its case for the lifting of an injunction banning...
[September 23, 2009, 14:41]
Microsoft infringed patent, says appeals court
News A federal appeals court on Friday affirmed a lower court ruling that Microsoft infringed on a patent owned by Alcatel-Lucent, but said the jury award of $358m in damages was excessive. The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington...
[September 14, 2009, 8:42]
Microsoft patent appeal heard
News A federal appeals court on Thursday wrestled with whether to overturn or uphold a lower court's $565m judgment against Microsoft in the biggest patent dispute in Web history. The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit spent 40 minutes asking...
[December 10, 2004, 7:35]
Napster gets temporary reprieve
News A federal appeals court on Wednesday issued a short reprieve for Napster, saying the company can temporarily restart its song-swapping service online. The appeals court released a terse note Wednesday saying that last week's ruling, made by federal...
[July 19, 2001, 10:58]
Yahoo free speech battle thrown out
News A divided federal appeals court on Thursday ducked the question of whether a French court order censoring Nazi-related materials can apply to Yahoo's US-based Web site. Appeals dismissed Yahoo's case involving the online display of
[January 13, 2006, 8:15]
Broadcom chalks up win in Qualcomm patent feud
News On Wednesday, a US federal appeals court affirmed that Qualcomm is infringing on two mobile-phone patents. The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled that Qualcomm was not infringing on one of the three patents in question.
[September 25, 2008, 12:09]
Microsoft not off the hook yet
News As expected, a federal appeals court has said it will consider whether a settlement inked between Microsoft, the US Department of Justice and some state attorneys general was consistent with the public interest.
[March 27, 2003, 16:52]
Open-source licence victory in model-railway case
News A federal appeals court in the US has upheld the right of a copyright holder to distribute software under a free or open-source licence while preventing such code being used commercially without following the licensing conditions.
[August 14, 2008, 17:32]
Microsoft fights Sun's Java injunction
News In an 83-page legal brief, the Redmond, Washington-based company asked the 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals to toss out a 21 January order from a Baltimore federal judge in an antitrust suit that Sun filed last year.
[February 13, 2003, 8:20]
US ruling boosts spam fight
News A federal appeals court said on Friday that a law restricting junk faxes was constitutional, setting a precedent that favours legal attempts to restrict unsolicited email. The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower court's ruling...
[March 24, 2003, 11:11]
Court affirms software download patent
News A federal appeals court has for the second time breathed life into a patent that could force software vendors to pay licensing fees to sell their products directly over the Internet. A full panel of judges on the Federal Circuit US Court of Appeals...
[July 17, 2001, 9:20]
Vonage wins reprieve over customer sign-up
News Vonage may continue to sign up new customers while appealing a patent infringement loss to Verizon, a federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday. In another reprieve for the struggling internet phone company, the decision arrived just hours after a...
[April 25, 2007, 8:52]
Microsoft loses appeal in Office patent spat
News Morrison & Foerster said that on Wednesday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington affirmed a verdict that Microsoft's Office software infringed on a patent held by Carlos Armando Amado.
[June 19, 2006, 9:50]
File-swap ruling heads back to court
News Lawyers representing the entertainment industry and file-swapping companies will meet in California on Tuesday as a federal appeals court hears the first arguments in a case likely to shape the future of online file swapping.
[February 3, 2004, 8:05]
Court rejects Microsoft bid for delay
News A federal appeals court on Friday delivered Microsoft a blow in its antitrust battle with the government, denying a request that could have indefinitely delayed further proceedings in the case. The order, issued by the US Court of Appeals for the...
[August 17, 2001, 16:58]
Court rules for Web users in privacy case
News In a ruling that marks a victory for privacy proponents, a federal appeals panel is allowing a group of Web surfers to sue a company that gathered certain data about them without their consent. The decision, handed down on Friday by the First...
[May 13, 2003, 12:26]
Court denies Vonage request for retrial
News The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit refused to grant the motion late on Wednesday. The Federal Circuit has already granted Vonage a permanent stay during the appeals process on an injunction ordered last month that would have prohibited...
[May 4, 2007, 9:08]
Spammer loses fight for right to spam
News An online dating service does not have the right to blast unsolicited email at thousands of University of Texas email addresses, a federal appeals court ruled. The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals said on Tuesday the university did not run afoul of...
[August 4, 2005, 9:55]
