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Microsoft Loses Latest Round In Windows Trademark Battle
News Following a preliminary ruling against Microsoft in March, the software giant asked the presiding judge in the Western District Court of Washington to reconsider and issue an injunction against Lindows.com that would force it to stop using the...
[May 16, 2002, 16:25]
Ruling Questions Windows Trademark
News In a strongly worded preliminary ruling handed down late on Friday in a US District Court, Judge John C. Coughenour denied Microsoft's request for a preliminary injunction to prevent Lindows.com from using the terms "LindowsOS" and "Lindows.com...
[March 18, 2002, 18:52]
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]
Microsoft Ordered To Carry Java
News I find it an absolute certainty that unless a preliminary injunction is entered, Sun will have lost forever its right to compete, and the opportunity to prevail, in a market undistorted by its competitor's antitrust violations," Motz wrote in the...
[December 24, 2002, 7:40]
Google Loses Image Search Copyright Case
News The Los Angeles judge said he would award Perfect 10 a preliminary injunction against Google, and gave lawyers for both sides until March 8 to propose the injunction's wording. While we're disappointed with portions of the ruling, we are pleased...
[February 22, 2006, 10:40]
Court Sets Back Sun's Java Push
News A federal appeals court dealt a legal setback to Sun Microsystems on Thursday, tossing out most of a preliminary injunction requiring Microsoft to carry its rival's version of an interpreter for the Java programming language.
[June 27, 2003, 8:41]
Court Sides With Microsoft In Sun Lawsuit
News Sun's claims came in spite of the fact that the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals has vacated a preliminary injunction against Microsoft, pending further clarification from the US District Court in San Jose, California.
[August 24, 1999, 8:12]
Court Dismisses Google Search-fixing Case
News District Court Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange on Tuesday denied a motion for a preliminary injunction brought by SearchKing, a Web hosting and advertising network that claimed Google unfairly removed links to its site and those of its partners from...
[June 2, 2003, 9:29]
Microsoft Goes Dutch In Lindows Battle
News A ruling in the Dutch case is expected around the end of the month, Drake said. This case follows an earlier ruling by the Dutch court, which blocked the sale of Lindows products in the Netherlands and access to the Lindows Web site.
[May 12, 2004, 9:10]
Too Little, Too Late From EU?
News Regardless of remedies, a European ruling against Microsoft will be undeniably painful. In this fast-changing environment, the EU's antitrust ruling could prove to be a sideshow, some analysts said. In a preliminary review released last August...
[March 8, 2004, 13:30]
Pop-up Provider Suffers Legal Setback
News The ruling, though preliminary, is the first against WhenU, despite complaints from other companies against its practices and those of the similar service Gator, which is now called Claria. In late December, as part of a lawsuit filed against WhenU...
[January 6, 2004, 8:35]
Early Ruling Close In BT Hyperlink Case
News Legal experts predict that a preliminary ruling in the case of British Telecommunications vs Prodigy could arrive as early as this week. This is an opportunity for Judge Colleen McMahon -- who oversaw the preliminary hearing of the case in a New...
[March 11, 2002, 14:10]
Quotes Of The Week, December 8-12
News Microsoft can no longer make PC vendors install IE but it's a preliminary ruling at this stage. Microsoft spokesman on the big DOJ ruling that said no forced IE bundling. "Most PC makers want IE because that's what users want.
[December 15, 1997, 12:59]
Net Music Sales Under Threat In Patent Case
News This week's preliminary ruling is the first major step forward, upholding SightSound's contention that it holds broad rights to one of the most common ways of selling music and video online. SightSound Technologies, a digital media company, has won...
[February 15, 2002, 10:56]
Court Dismisses Most Sony Claims Against Connectix
News The decision should come as no surprise: In February, an appeals court lifted a preliminary injunction that prevented Connectix from shipping VGS. In that ruling, the judges sided with Connectix on the key issues in the dispute and remanded the...
[May 17, 2000, 12:09]
Court Rules In Favour Of ICANN
News A federal judge has denied a preliminary injunction filed against the organisation that oversees Internet domain names and addresses. In a ruling released Thursday, a federal court in Los Angeles dismissed charges filed by two domain name...
[November 17, 2003, 11:10]
Microsoft Looks To European Resolution
News A preliminary ruling is expected by the end of the year. But Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft takes the stance that Friday's ruling could help resolve the investigation on the continent. The plaintiff states sought "to broaden the view of...
[November 4, 2002, 7:58]
Microsoft Set To Refund $1bn
News A California judge on Friday gave preliminary approval to a landmark settlement under which Microsoft will pay $1.1bn (£690m) to settle a class-action suit that claimed it overcharged consumers for Windows.
[July 21, 2003, 7:47]
DoJ To Seek Charges Against Microsoft
News In the settlement talks, some people in the government camp are expected to press for a restructuring of the company to prevent a recurrence of the predatory acts found by Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson in his Nov.preliminary ruling in the case.
[December 6, 1999, 14:35]
Internet Ads Will Face Trademark Lawsuit
News Overture, owned by Yahoo, declined to comment, pointing out that it is only a preliminary ruling. We find that plaintiffs have alleged facts sufficient to support their claims that advertisers make a 'trademark use' of Geico's marks and that...
[September 3, 2004, 10:35]
