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Microsoft Publishes Office Specs In OOXML Push
News According to Ronald Yu, a US patent agent and academic, the covenant has never been tested in court, and it includes no mention of any court or tribunal in which to resolve a dispute. In a comment posted on Jones's blog post on Saturday, Rodriguez...
[February 18, 2008, 14:04]
Be Stings Microsoft With Lawsuit
News In the lawsuit, filed in US District Court in San Francisco, Be said it is suing for "the destruction of its business as a direct result of the illegal and anti-competitive practices of Microsoft. A federal appeals court struck down that part of...
[February 20, 2002, 8:52]
Microsoft Faces Second Patent Claim
News However, the InterTrust suit could dampen those plans if a court rules against Microsoft and forces it to disable some parts of its digital rights technology. The original suit, filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of...
[June 27, 2001, 10:46]
Microsoft Probed On Linux Retaliation
News Massachusetts, the only state still pursuing antitrust charges against the software maker, said in a court filing that it "is looking at several issues related to potential enforcement of the decree. And you have the court.
[July 8, 2003, 7:56]
Ruling Questions Windows Trademark
News The suit asks the court to order the start-up to stop using the Lindows name and also sought unspecified damages. We're not asking the court to stop the company from making their products," said Microsoft spokesman Jon Murchinson at the time.
[March 18, 2002, 18:52]
Microsoft Sues Linux Start-up Over Name
News The suit asks the court to order the start-up to stop using the Lindows name and also seeks unspecified monetary damages. Microsoft asked a court on Thursday to stop a Linux start-up from using a name the software giant contends infringes on the...
[December 21, 2001, 10:01]
Netscape Seeks More Than Money
News Netscape also is asking the court to impose a preliminary injunction against Microsoft that could compel the company to sell a version of Windows without some or all of the "middleware" components, such as the Web browser, media player or instant...
[January 24, 2002, 9:10]
Judges Split Over Microsoft Ruling
News The appellate judges overseeing the latest phase of the Microsoft antitrust case are divided over the findings of fact from US district judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, an indication that the court may revisit some issues in the case in a hearing...
[February 27, 2001, 7:13]
Phone Maker Details Microsoft Divorce
News Microsoft is scheduled to file a more formal denial in court later this week. The lawsuit, filed last month in federal court in Texarkana, Texas, accuses Microsoft of misappropriation of trade secrets, unfair competition and fraud, and provides the...
[January 14, 2003, 7:30]
Visto Wins Patent Suit, Sues BlackBerry Maker
News Another suit, filed with the same Texas federal court in December, accuses Microsoft's Windows Mobile 5.0 operating system of infringing on three of its patents that provide users with access to corporate email servers on their mobile devices.
[May 2, 2006, 11:00]
Novell Sues Microsoft Over WordPerfect
News The suit, filed in US District Court in Salt Lake City, seeks unspecified damages. Novell filed suit against Microsoft on Friday, claiming the company used anti-competitive tactics in the desktop software market during the 1990s.
[November 15, 2004, 11:00]
Sun Exec Accuses Microsoft Of 'patent Terrorism'
News In recent times, Microsoft has struck legal agreements with Linux distributors Novell, Xandros and Linspire, pledging not to sue users of these distributions over alleged patent violations — none of which have yet been tested in a court of law.
[July 24, 2007, 9:24]
.Net And XP Hit By Patent Suit
News The latest filing, made in a San Francisco court, focuses on a patent InterTrust received in June for a method of transferring digital content. InterTrust said the lawsuit seeks an unspecified amount of financial damages as well as an injunction...
[October 19, 2001, 9:31]
Pen Pioneer Sues Microsoft
News The suit, which seeks unspecified damages, was filed on Wednesday in US District Court in San Francisco by S. The founder of pen computing pioneer Go filed an antitrust suit against Microsoft, claiming that the software giant violated antitrust...
[July 4, 2005, 9:20]
Microsoft Opens European Front In Lindows Battle
News It makes no sense to launch all these lawsuits when in three months, this case will be decided in a US court, and if we lose, we'll change our name, and it's a nonissue. The letters demand that Lindows and its resellers stop offering the software...
[December 9, 2003, 7:35]
Tech Industry Quiet Over Netscape Lawsuit
News Given the revelations of Microsoft's business practices through the court's holdings in the federal antitrust case, this should surprise no one," Red Hat spokeswoman Melissa London said of the newest lawsuit.
[January 23, 2002, 13:41]
Microsoft Insists Its Monopolistic Days Are Over
News In response, Microsoft plans to be more proactive in fending off such occurrences, which it described in more detail in a recent report filed with the court, Brad Smith, the software maker's general counsel, told the judge.
[December 1, 2005, 11:50]
BlackBerry Maker Hits Rival With Lawsuit
News Ontario-based RIM charges, in a suit filed on Wednesday in US District Court in Delaware, that Glenayre Technologies violates a patent, granted last month to RIM, protecting the way the BlackBerry redirects email from a computer, or server, to a...
[May 18, 2001, 15:07]
Apple Sues Developers Over Tiger Leak
News The lawsuit, filed on Monday in federal court in San Jose, California, alleges that the three men posted a developer release of Mac OS X Tiger onto sites used by the BitTorrent file-trading network. The Tiger-related suit comes a week after Apple...
[December 22, 2004, 8:55]
DVD Technology Faces Legal Test
News The group is asking the court for unspecified damages and to stop Kaleidescape from further sales of its products. The suit was filed in California state court in Santa Clara County. Technology companies including Microsoft have envisioned doing...
[December 8, 2004, 12:40]
