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Article: Microsoft Loses First Round in Lindows Case; Court Raises.
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- Client Server News
- Article date:
- March 25, 2002
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Questions about Validity of Windows Trademark
Microsoft has lost its motion for a preliminary injunction that would bar the Lin-dows.com start-up from calling itself and its desktop operating system Lindows. Microsoft claims the name is too close to Windows.
What's worse - in a double threat to Microsoft - the court said, "There are serious questions regarding whether Windows is a non- generic name and thus eligible for the protection of federal trademark law," but cautioned that what it said "is not a conclusive finding that the trademark is invalid."
Microsoft initially had trouble getting a trademark on Windows. In 1993 it paid Borland ...