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Judge demands Microsoft explain email deletion
News Frederick Motz ordered the company on Thursday to interview attorneys and search for any record of discussions leading to a January 2000 email from Windows Group vice president James Allchin, in which he ordered Windows division employees to...
[May 24, 2004, 8:40]
Judge throws out MS school deal
News Rich Gray, a Silicon Valley-based attorney closely following the matter, said that Motz's conclusion--that the cases developed sufficiently for the judge to be comfortable with a billion-dollar settlement--bodes ill for the software maker.
[January 14, 2002, 8:40]
Novell-Microsoft antitrust court clash continues
News Judge J Frederick Motz ruled on Friday that Novell can go ahead with two claims that Microsoft engaged in unfair competition with regard to Novell's WordPerfect and Quattro Pro applications. Motz ruled that the four other claims were not filled...
[June 14, 2005, 9:55]
Microsoft ordered to carry Java
News Frederick Motz in Baltimore is a double-barrelled victory for Sun, which won preliminary injunctions on both the order to carry Java and a copyright infringement claim. I find it an absolute certainty that unless a preliminary injunction is entered...
[December 24, 2002, 7:40]
Judge considers Java for Windows XP
News During the first day of an antitrust hearing that is likely to last all week, US District Judge Frederick Motz gave mixed signals about what he was thinking, saying that Sun's suggestion was "attractive" but could be unduly self-serving.
[December 4, 2002, 10:47]
Java spat brews up court battle
News US District Judge Frederick Motz in Baltimore has scheduled three to four days of arguments in this case, which alleges Microsoft tried to strong-arm the Java programming language out of existence. In October, Judge Motz indicated that he would...
[December 3, 2002, 9:08]
Microsoft fights antitrust charges
News Frederick Motz, Microsoft will argue that cases brought by Be Inc. But Motz has taken a harsh view of Microsoft's business behaviour. I find it an absolute certainty that unless a preliminary injunction is entered, Sun will have lost forever its...
[January 10, 2003, 16:04]
Microsoft blow in private antitrust case
News The comments by US District Judge Frederick Motz in Baltimore were made during a one-day hearing on a motion by plaintiffs Thursday. Motz said that AOL Time Warner's Netscape division, Sun Microsystems, Be and Burst.com would not have "a hard case...
[October 28, 2002, 9:08]
Sun, Microsoft to argue injunction terms
News In his ruling last month, Judge Motz granted Sun's request for an injunction in general terms. Frederick Motz in Baltimore ordered Sun and Microsoft to appear in court on Wednesday at 1:30 PST. In his initial ruling, Motz ordered Microsoft to...
[January 15, 2003, 8:05]
Court sets back Sun's Java push
News In explaining the need for the injunction, US district judge J Frederick Motz concluded there was a "serious risk" that the market could tip away from Java and toward Microsoft's .Net. On 4 February, a three-judge panel of the appeals court put...
[June 27, 2003, 8:41]
Microsoft releases details of new settlement
News Some lawyers on the case seem to share those sentiments and would like to see Motz reject the settlement. But Tom Burt, Microsoft's deputy general counsel, said that if Motz chooses to include California, the issue is settled.
[November 21, 2001, 8:51]
Microsoft fires back at Sun in Java case
News Frederick Motz. On 21 January, Motz issued a preliminary injunction, ordering Microsoft to do two things: distribute Sun's version of Java with Windows and stop distributing its own implementation of the programming language.
[February 24, 2003, 8:10]
Microsoft pulls Java from Windows
News Frederick Motz gave Microsoft 120 days to replace its JVM included with Windows XP with a more current Java Runtime Environment (JRE) from Sun Microsystems. Sun had asked Motz to issue a preliminary injunction compelling Microsoft to carry its JVM...
[February 4, 2003, 10:52]
Microsoft fights Sun's Java injunction
News Frederick Motz ordered Microsoft to do two things: distribute Sun's version of Java with Windows and stop distributing its own implementation. Motz agreed with Sun that Microsoft's conduct during the mid- to late 1990s violated antitrust laws by...
[February 13, 2003, 8:20]
Judge orders up Java for Windows
News Frederick Motz approved terms that Microsoft and Sun jointly developed over the weekend. The closed-door negotiations came after Motz ruled on 23 December that Sun stood a good chance of winning its antitrust suit against Microsoft and told both...
[January 21, 2003, 15:43]
Burst.com wants Gates' deposition made public
News Frederick Motz lift a protective order sealing certain files. A software company suing Microsoft for patent infringement wants a judge to release a deposition of Bill Gates to the public. Burst.com plans to file a motion in federal court in...
[September 2, 2004, 14:10]
Apple joins critics of Microsoft deal
News On Monday, the Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) and the American Antitrust Institute (AAI) sent separate letters to Motz asking him to reject the proposed agreement. Frederick Motz during a day-long hearing at the US District...
[November 28, 2001, 9:55]
Microsoft $1bn schools offer 'would inflict great harm'
News Frederick Motz will hear arguments to decide whether the proposed settlement will be of benefit to schoolchildren or will simply further Microsoft's monopoly, begins on Tuesday. Microsoft's proposed settlement for more than 100 outstanding private...
[November 27, 2001, 12:35]
Microsoft wins antitrust suit
News Frederick Motz granted Microsoft's motion to dismiss Go founder S Jerrold Kaplan's suit, which was filed in June 2005. Motz did allow Kaplan the option of filing a new suit based on any damages that may have occurred within four years prior to the...
[July 3, 2006, 15:15]
Microsoft wins stay of Java order
News Frederick Motz in Baltimore, who gave the company 120 days to begin including Sun's latest Java runtime environment in every copy of Windows and Internet Explorer. Earlier in the day, Microsoft had said that it would comply with Motz's order by...
[February 4, 2003, 7:21]
