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Article: Microsoft Stops Lindows Sales in Sweden.
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- Client Server News
- Article date:
- December 15, 2003
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The dangerous trademark fight between Microsoft and Lindow.com that could ironically wind up stripping Microsoft of its rights to the Windows trademark has suddenly leapt outside the US to Sweden, where Microsoft succeeded Wednesday in getting a temporary restraining order halting the sale of the Lindows desktop operating system, Lindows said.
Lindows said Microsoft has filed for an injunction in a Stockholm city court to prohibit the use of the marks "Lindows," "Lindows.com" and "LindowsOS" in Sweden claiming trademark infringement.
Microsoft is also taking its case to courts in France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Holland. Microsoft is reportedly trying to ...