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Microsoft asks court to halt Word injunction
News Microsoft on Tuesday asked an appeals court to halt an injunction that would force the company to stop selling Microsoft Word in its current form. In its 'emergency motion', made on Tuesday, Microsoft asked an appeals court to halt that injunction...
[August 19, 2009, 8:40]
Court order can't halt European Rio - Diamond
News A Diamond spokesman says the US courts have no jurisdiction in Europe and because the player is made in Taiwan it will be difficult for the US to stop "grey imports" of the player. Obviously it's a little disappointing" says the spokesman, "but it...
[October 19, 1998, 12:18]
NXP sues university over 'Oyster crack'
News Chip company NXP Semiconductors is to sue Radboud University in an attempt to halt the publication of a paper detailing the cryptographic cracking of the Oyster smartcard, used widely on the London transport network.
[July 8, 2008, 17:17]
RIM creates patent 'workaround'
News The impasse revives the risk of a court injunction that would halt US sales of RIM's flagship wireless email device. NTP successfully sued RIM in 2002 for patent infringement, winning an injunction in 2003 to halt U.S.
[June 17, 2005, 10:30]
MPs take McKinnon fight to US ambassador
News On Thursday, the Home Office maintained that it would be unlawful for the home secretary to halt the proceedings, given a High Court decision to allow the extradition in July. In August, Johnson said he could not as home secretary step in to halt...
[September 10, 2009, 16:16]
Amazon sues Barnesandnoble.com over 1-Click
News The suit, filed late Thursday in US District Court in Seattle, alleges patent infringement and seeks an immediate and permanent court-ordered halt to the defendant's copycat feature. Amazon had filed a countersuit in the same state court, deriding...
[October 25, 1999, 14:56]
Pornography site files suit against Google
News Perfect 10, in a filing on Wednesday with the US District Court in Los Angeles, asked the court to immediately halt Google from allegedly copying, displaying and distributing more than 3,000 Perfect 10 photos.
[August 26, 2005, 15:10]
Movie studios sue DVD software firms
News The studios filed suit against Tritton Technologies, QOJ, World Reach and Proto Ventures in New York federal court, asking for unspecified damages and a court-ordered halt to the distribution of the various software packages.
[September 18, 2003, 9:55]
US Report: Sun Vs. Microsoft - let the show begin
News It also is seeking the court to halt Microsoft from shipping Java tools unless they are compatible with "fully compatible" Java. District Court in San Jose, Judge Ronald Whyte will hear presentations from both Sun and Microsoft executives in the...
[August 26, 1998, 7:54]
Napster appeal: don't shut us down
News Saying jobs and the company's future are at stake, Napster filed an emergency motion Thursday seeking to delay a federal order that could bring its song-swapping service to a grinding halt Friday at midnight Pacific Time.
[July 28, 2000, 9:24]
Nasa hacker wins right to appeal against extradition
News The Home Office had refused to halt the extradition proceedings, despite McKinnon having been diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, a condition on the autistic spectrum. Lord Justice Maurice Kay made the ruling at the High Court in London on Friday.
[January 23, 2009, 15:44]
Another file-swapping site to fall silent
News An Illinois federal judge said Wednesday that he would order the Madster file-trading system, formerly known as Aimster, to halt song-swapping in the next few days. The decision marks the Recording Industry Association of America's (RIAA) second...
[September 5, 2002, 7:56]
Nasa hacker loses final legal challenge
News Under 'Rule 39', citizens can make an emergency application to halt extradition proceedings if they believe their human rights will be infringed upon. McKinnon had applied to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) for it to hear an appeal...
[August 28, 2008, 13:17]
Why AOL holds all the keys
News The suit asks the court to halt distribution of AOL 5.0, unless there is "full disclosure of the effect of its operation on other software" and urges the judge to force AOL to "disgorge all monies it has earned from the distribution of AOL 5.0.
[April 17, 2000, 16:07]
Napster order: Patrol yourself
News When a US District Court judge ordered Napster to halt the trading of major-label music in July, the company said it was technologically impossible to comply with the order unless it were to shut down altogether.
[February 14, 2001, 8:32]
Antitrust: Microsoft makes case for delay
News The Supreme Court might take the appeal, but that's a separate question of whether they would halt proceedings in the District Court," said Jonathan Jacobson, an antitrust lawyer with Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld in New York.
[August 15, 2001, 9:34]
VIA counter-sues Intel
News In January, Intel filed a complaint against VIA to halt the importation of, among other products, VIA's Apollo Pro chipsets, which work with Intel's Celeron and Pentium III processors. The Taiwan company filed the suit in a London court on Wednesday.
[February 17, 2000, 13:25]
Spammer loses fight for right to spam
News Most spammers might halt their efforts at that point, but White Buffalo was unusually determined. An online dating service does not have the right to blast unsolicited email at thousands of University of Texas email addresses, a federal appeals...
[August 4, 2005, 9:55]
SAP gains on Siebel
News Germany's Frankfurt District Court ruled in favour of SAP, ordering a halt to the ads. A similar claim -- which appeared in Siebel's advertising campaign in Europe -- landed the company in court late April.
[July 4, 2002, 8:40]
Students defy DMCA to post email online
News The Electronic Frontier Foundation and Stanford Law School's Centre for Internet and Society are planning to file a lawsuit asking for a temporary restraining order that would effectively halt Diebold's campaign against the loosely organised...
[November 4, 2003, 8:40]
