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Injunction against PlayStation emulator denied
News A US judge has denied Sony an injunction to prevent sales of an emulator that allows PlayStation games to be played on Windows based PCs. This is the second blow for Sony in the ongoing case against software company Bleem.
[September 1, 1999, 9:28]
Bulger injunction ridicules British Internet law
News The High Court injunction granted to protect the anonymity of Jon Venables and Robert Thompson will not be enforceable outside of UK jurisdiction, despite having a worldwide remit. Fears that the new identities of the Bulger killers will be exposed...
[June 25, 2001, 14:50]
Register.com wins injunction over domain names
News Domain name registrar Register.com won a preliminary injunction against a competitor for alleged "domain name slamming," or filching customers without their knowledge. The injunction prevents DROA from misleading consumers into thinking they are...
[December 31, 2002, 10:01]
Truphone applies for T-Mobile injunction
News Mobile VoIP provider Truphone has applied for an injunction against T-Mobile UK in an attempt to get the operator to allow its customers to call Truphone users. Wednesday's injunction application, heard at the Royal Courts of Justice in London...
[July 12, 2007, 17:07]
Start-up claims network injunction against Longhorn
News A small Californian company says it has been granted a preliminary injunction preventing Microsoft from incorporating a patented networking method into future versions of Windows. Alacritech said on Wednesday that the injunction blocks Microsoft...
[April 14, 2005, 9:00]
News Burst: Napster injunction partly upheld
News According to early reports from America, a US court has partly upheld an injunction against song-swapping site Napster. If the injunction has been upheld then Napster, which signed a deal with record label Bertelsmann last October, would not be...
[February 12, 2001, 17:33]
Lexmark wins injunction in DMCA case
News Printer maker Lexmark International Group won a preliminary injunction on Thursday in efforts to prevent a company from selling computer chips that allow toner cartridges to be recycled. Judge Karl Forester of the US District Court for the Eastern...
[February 28, 2003, 7:39]
Sun, Microsoft to argue injunction terms
News Having taken the festive season to work out the specific terms of an injunction handed down last month, Sun Microsystems and Microsoft are now scheduled to appear before a federal judge to detail their proposals.
[January 15, 2003, 8:05]
Intel to appeal Itanium injunction
News A US District Court judge issued an injunction Wednesday that bars Intel from making and selling its Itanium processor, but immediately suspended that order to allow the chip maker to appeal the ruling.
[October 31, 2002, 10:34]
News Burst: States, DoJ weigh injunction against Win98
News According to sources close to the states' action, a request for a preliminary injunction against Windows 98 may be part of the suits. Attorney General Janet Reno, Assistant Attorney General Joel Klein and New York Attorney General Dennis Vacco will...
[May 18, 1998, 14:19]
Judge upholds COPA injunction
News The ruling grants a bid by plaintiffs -- including the American Civil Liberties Union, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Electronic Privacy Information Centre, ZDNet and a host of online publishers -- to extend a three-month-old temporary...
[February 2, 1999, 9:10]
MS appeals injunction, offers shipping options
News Microsoft Corp.today appealed the preliminary injunction issued by U.S. Charging that the preliminary injunction overstepped the bounds of the case, Bill Neukom, Microsoft's senior vice president for law and corporate affairs, said the case should...
[December 16, 1997, 14:50]
US Report: Sun wins injunction against MS in Java dispute
News District Judge Ronald Whyte said Sun was "likely to prevail on the merits" of its lawsuit over the Java programming language and issued a preliminary injunction that would bar Microsoft from selling products that use the technology.
[November 18, 1998, 5:43]
Amazon loses one-click patent injunction
News Online bookseller Amazon.com has been denied an injunction against rival barnesandboble.com for using a process that it has controversially patented, "single-click purchasing". The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) has determined...
[March 9, 2001, 14:17]
US Report: States may seek injunction against MS
News Attorneys general from nearly a dozen states are likely to take action against Microsoft next week, possibly as early as Monday or Tuesday, by seeking a preliminary injunction to prevent the shipment of Windows 98.
[April 30, 1998, 8:38]
US Report: Microsoft appeals Java injunction
News On November 17, federal judge Ronald Whyte issued a preliminary injunction, saying Sun Microsystems Inc.was likely to prevail in its case against Microsoft. Sun sued Microsoft in October of 1997, charging that the software giant violated copyright...
[December 18, 1998, 6:23]
Appeals court overturns Microsoft injunction
News Appeals Court has overturned a preliminary injunction against Microsoft Corp.saying that a lower court made substantial errors when it prohibited Microsoft from requiring computer manufacturers that license Windows 95 to license the Internet...
[June 24, 1998, 9:13]
Demon reverses Bulger injunction for ISPs
News British telco Demon Internet has successfully challenged the High Court injunction protecting the identities of the boys who killed Jamie Bulger, meaning that Internet Service Providers (ISPs) will not be liable if users post the boys' new names...
[July 10, 2001, 16:28]
Australian Linux community dismisses SuSE injunction
News Members of the Linux community are dismissing a legal injunction brought against SuSE Linux by a German court on Tuesday as frivolous, but fear its implications for Linux distributors. The legal injunction is highly unlikely to have any impact on...
[January 9, 2002, 11:48]
Google Earth dodges injunction
News A federal judge in Massachusetts has rejected a request for an injunction preventing Google from distributing its popular 3D Earth-mapping and visualisation program. US District Judge Douglas Woodlock on Friday denied a preliminary injunction...
[June 13, 2006, 11:05]
