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Microsoft Loses Latest Round In Windows Trademark Battle
News At stake is the validity of the Windows trademark, which Microsoft was granted in 1995 after a two-year fight to reverse an earlier ruling by the US Trademarks Office that the word could not be trademarked.
[May 16, 2002, 16:25]
Ruling Questions Windows Trademark
News Coughenour denied Microsoft's request for a preliminary injunction to prevent Lindows.com from using the terms "LindowsOS" and "Lindows.com," stating that "Microsoft has raised serious questions about the validity of its trademark (Windows).
[March 18, 2002, 18:52]
We Own Windows Trademark - Microsoft
News The Court finds that Lindows.com has met its burden of proof in rebutting the validity of the Windows trademark," said Judge John C. Defending the initial refusal of a trademark for Windows by the Trademarks office in 1993, Microsoft said the...
[April 5, 2002, 12:22]
Lindows Seeks To Block Microsoft Suits Worldwide
News The filing marks the latest move in Lindows' wide-ranging dispute with Microsoft regarding trademark rights to the Windows name. A Microsoft spokesman responded to the filing by stating that the company believes that Lindows is infringing on its...
[March 17, 2004, 10:05]
Lindows Adopts New Name For Low Countries
News The software company, in the midst of a wide-ranging dispute with Microsoft regarding trademark rights to the Windows name, announced on Tuesday that it is now doing business in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg as Lin- - -s(pronounced...
[February 18, 2004, 7:20]
Microsoft Inspires New Lindows Name
News The company is locked in a two-year-old legal battle with Microsoft, which says that the Lindows name is an infringement of its trademark for the Windows operating system. Lindows argues that the trademark is invalid, because "windows" is a generic...
[April 15, 2004, 13:00]
Split Decision On IMac Look-alikes
News Trade dress is an adjunct to trademark laws; it is considered an unregistered trademark and can protect a product or service's shape, appearance, color, packaging or sales method against copying by a competitor.
[June 6, 2001, 15:54]
Sweden Temporarily Bans Lindows
News As previously reported, Microsoft recently expanded the trademark battle to Europe. A Swedish court has temporarily blocked the distribution of Lindows software in the country, pending a ruling on Microsoft's claim that the company's name violates...
[December 12, 2003, 12:15]
Microsoft Opens Canadian Front Against Lindows
News Microsoft has expanded its legal battle against Linux seller Lindows, suing the software maker for trademark infringement in Canada. The US suit, filed shortly after Lindows went into business, claims the company's name infringes on Microsoft's...
[February 20, 2004, 9:30]
Microsoft Opens European Front In Lindows Battle
News The dispute opens another front in Lindows' trademark spat with Microsoft, which has claimed that the company's name violates its Windows trademark in the United States. Desler declined to comment on what Microsoft's next action would be in Sweden...
[December 9, 2003, 7:35]
Microsoft 'reaches Agreement' In Lindows.com Battle
News Microsoft filed a lawsuit claiming that Lindows.com was violating its trademark on the word 'windows'. Microsoft's battle with Lindows.com may be over. Microsoft and Lindows.com have been engaged in a legal tussle since 2001, after Lindows launched...
[July 19, 2004, 17:45]
Microsoft Cracks Down On Used Windows Sales
News For more than a year, Microsoft employees have kept tabs on eBay and other online auctions for software sales that the company believes violate its copyright or trademark rights. Microsoft in many ways could find itself in an uphill battle to...
[October 9, 2001, 9:20]
What's In A Name? Not Palladium
News Another company has laid a claim to the trademark of Palladium," he said. In additional, it faced a potential legal battle with a small firm over the Palladium name. The official story -- and it's true -- is that we intended to change the name for...
[January 27, 2003, 8:10]
Crunch Time For Sun, Microsoft
News The company could forbid Microsoft from using the name Java or Virtual Machine (both trademarked by Sun) in any of its products and literature, it could boot the company out of the programs that provide licensees with source code and access to...
[September 29, 1997, 15:02]
Visto Wins Patent Suit, Sues BlackBerry Maker
News US Patent and Trademark Office re-examinations. Visto's suit against Seven, and its new battle against RIM, show that the litigious wireless email market has yet to settle down following a settlement in the lengthy dispute between RIM and NTP.
[May 2, 2006, 11:00]
Eolas Hits Back At Microsoft In Patent Battle
News While Microsoft appeals the decision in court, the US Patent and Trademark Office is also re-examining the patent following appeals by many in the Web industry, including plug-in makers and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), a key standards body.
[July 20, 2004, 8:35]
Linux Desktop: Closer Than You Think
News Even Linus Torvalds sees huge potential (though he says so with his trademark smirk, so it's hard to tell whether he's kidding). In the race to make desktop computers easier to operate, Gnome is in a battle with the K Desktop Environment, or KDE...
[August 13, 1999, 9:17]
Microsoft Goes Dutch In Lindows Battle
News Microsoft and Lindows faced off in a Dutch court on Tuesday over allegations the Linux operating system company infringed on the Windows trademark. Lindows has previously argued that Microsoft's trademark is invalid, since "windows" is a common...
[May 12, 2004, 9:10]
Lindows-Microsoft Battle Cleared For Trial
News In the case, Microsoft is alleging that the company's Lindows operating system software infringes on Microsoft's Windows trademark, while Lindows claims that Windows is a generic computing term. Linux software maker Lindows said on Monday that an...
[May 25, 2004, 11:15]
Lindows Wins A Round In Naming Battle
News In the ongoing dispute over whether or not Linux reseller Lindows' name treads on Microsoft's trademark toes, the open-source company has finally scored a financial win against the Redmond giant. In April, Lindows changed its customer-facing name...
[June 2, 2004, 16:30]
