Besieged in Europe, where it recently has had to cease doing business in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg, [b]Lindows[/b] has submitted a motion to the U.S. District Court in the Western District of Washington asking the court to halt the flood of global trademark lawsuits [b]Microsoft[/b] has filed against it.
[blockquote]"Microsoft is purposely delaying the U.S. case from going to trial while they use their monopoly profits to fund a global legal assault on our small company to halt the adoption of Linux," Michael Robertson, Lindows.com's CEO, said in a prepared statement. "The U.S. case has been ongoing for over two years and Lindows is looking forward to presenting extensive evidence to a Seattle jury demonstrating that 'windows' is a generic word and that Microsoft secured a trademark only by committing fraud on the trademark office." [/blockquote]
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