Tag archive: Lindows

“Lindows Inc., which is the process of changing its name to Linspire as part of a worldwide settlement reached in its trademark infringement case with Microsoft, is keeping its S-1 registration statement on file with the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission). Because of this, the company may still proceed with an IPO later. In its S-1, Lindows had stated that it intended to issue 4.4 million shares at $9 to $11 a share, which could… Read More

As part of the agreemen, Lindows will abandon the Lindows name and transfer its Web domains to Microsoft. Lindows had recently started calling its products “Linspire” in response to European trademark disputes with Microsoft. From Microsoft's press release: Lindows.com and Microsoft Corp. today jointly announced that a worldwide settlement has been reached in the trademark infringement cases between the two companies.… Read More

The San Diego, Calif.-based company had been ordered by courts in the Netherlands and other countries as well as in Sweden to cease using its name as well as the Lindows.com and LindowsOS terms, which were ruled an infringement on Microsoft Corp.'s Windows trademark, but no new name or time frame for renaming had been mentioned. The stateside name will remain Lindows Inc. Read the full story at eWeek.

Lindows said Monday that U.S. District Court Judge John C. Coughenour had granted it an expedited hearing for a motion seeking to stop Microsoft from suing the company abroad until the case had been decided in the U.S. and to declare an Amsterdam judge's preliminary injunction against it as unenforceable and non-recognizable. Read the full story at IT World.

Lindows, based in San Diego, California, said it had withdrawn from the three countries after it received legal papers demanding that it pay a fine of up to 100,000 euros a day for failing to comply with an earlier court order. Microsoft, which is often embroiled in legal battles with competitors, has pursued Lindows in courts around the world, alleging trademark infringement of its Windows brand name by Lindows, which offers a… Read More

A judge has halted a Web-based program that aimed to help California consumers file electronically for a piece of a $1.1 billion class-action settlement against Microsoft Corp., saying anyonewho wants to make a claim must fill out paperwork. Lindows.com Inc.'s site, MSfreePC.com, promised to simplify the process and provide instant gratification. Users, after answering a few questions, were given Lindows' Linux operating… Read More

Microsoft sued Lindows.com in December 2001, accusing the company of infringing its “Windows” trademark and asking the court to bar Lindows.com from further using the Lindows name. Schedule Shuffle The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington in Seattle originally set a trial date in April, but moved that to December to give Lindows.com more time to prepare for the case. The trial has now been pushed… Read More

The Lindows Mobile PC, with a weight of 2.9 pounds (about 1.32 kilograms), runs Linux operating system software instead of Microsoft Windows and Apple's own operation system, and it is equipped with a 933 megahertz C3 microprocessor from VIA Technologies, 256 MB of memory, a 20 GB hard disk and a 12.1 inch TFT display. Other “ultralight” notebook computers with similar features from Toshiba, IBM and Apple are currently… Read More