Microsoft’s trademark infringement case against Lindows will go to trial after a federal appeals court denied the world’s largest software maker’s appeal. Microsoft had filed an appeal earlier this year, just before both parties were to meet in the courtroom, over whether the word “windows” can be considered a generic term as it is used by the public today. U.S. District Court Judge John Coughenour, who is presiding over the case, had previously instructed that a jury should only consider whether the word “windows” was a generic term before Microsoft launched its first version of Windows in 1985.
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Microsoft’s Trial with Lindows Moves Forward
Posted by: News Staff May 24, 2004 03:07 PMMicrosoft’s trademark infringement case against Lindows will go to trial after a federal appeals court denied the world’s largest software maker’s appeal. Microsoft had filed an appeal earlier this year, just before both parties were to meet in the courtroom, over whether the word “windows” can be considered a generic term as it is used by the public today. U.S. District Court Judge John Coughenour, who is presiding over the case, had previously instructed that a jury should only consider whether the word “windows” was a generic term before Microsoft launched its first version of Windows in 1985.