Etiket: Linspire

Leading intellectual property lawyers are suggesting that a U.S. District Court ruling earlier this week, which stated the word “windows” is generic and cannot be trademarked, is incorrect and probably will be overturned on appeal. U.S. District Judge John Coughenour, in the ruling released this week in a case filed by Microsoft in Seattle against…

Was the term “windows” used in the computing world before Microsoft’s Windows operating system first hit the scene in 1985? A U.S. Court of Appeals ruled this week that Microsoft will not be able to make that case to the judge in the Microsoft-Lindows trademark conflict before trial, which now will be held later this…