U.S. Dist. Court, Seattle, ordered Microsoft to produce more than...
U.S. Dist. Court, Seattle, ordered Microsoft to produce more than 300 boxes of documents as evidence in “windows” trademark dispute with Lindows.com, resulting in trial delay. Jury trial scheduled to begin April 7 has been rescheduled to Dec. 1.…
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Evidence in question includes documentation from 1992 Apple v. Microsoft case. Lindows.com said those documents revealed that elements such as windows, icons and menus weren’t property of any one company because they were widely used in computer business -- contrary to Microsoft’s current argument that it should maintain exclusive use of term “windows.” In March 15, 2002, order denying Microsoft request for preliminary injunction against Lindows.com, court said that “in its defense of a copyright suit brought by Apple Computer, Microsoft successfully argued that several companies had introduced user interfaces featuring overlapping windows prior to Microsoft’s announcement of its Windows product.” Current case began in Dec. 2001 when Microsoft filed trademark action against Lindows.com asking court to block Lindows.com from using its company name and its product name, LindowsOS. To date, 2 successive have rulings denied Microsoft’s requests for injunction.