Reports in the European media have suggested that Microsoft's trademark dispute with Lindows.com, vendor of a Linux-based operating system, has crossed the Atlantic.
It emerged earlier this month that the date for commencement of the patent infringement suit in the United States has been pushed back again, with the trial now set to begin in March 2004.
Microsoft argues that the Lindows product has been so-named to confuse consumers, and thus infringes on its Windows trademark. However, Lindows argues that terms such as window, icon, and menu have been generically used within the computing industry for more than 20 years, and can therefore not be subject to a copyright claim.
Lindows chief executive, Michael Robertson this week announced that he was travelling to Amsterdam to visit Dutch resellers of the Lindows product who claimed to have received threats of legal action from Microsoft if they continue to support the operating system.
However, speaking to the IDG news service, a Microsoft representative refuted the allegations, explaining that although the software giant has expanded its trademark infringement claims to the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium, and Sweden, it has not targeted individual Linux resellers.
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