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Microsoft defended itself in the public arena, arguing that its attempts to "innovate" were under attack by rival companies jealous of its success, and that government litigation was merely their pawn. A full-page ad appeared in The Washington Post and The New York Times on June 2, 1999, created by a think tank called The Independent Institute ...
The magistrate judge considered that Microsoft had control of the material outside the United States, and thus would be able to comply with the subpoena-like nature of the SCA warrant. [2] Microsoft appealed to a federal District Judge. [3] The district court upheld the magistrate judge's ruling, requiring Microsoft to provide the emails in full.
Microsoft has also fought numerous legal battles against private companies. The most prominent ones are against: Alcatel-Lucent, which won US$1.52 billion in a lawsuit which alleged that Microsoft had infringed its patents on playback of audio files. This ruling was overturned in a higher court.
Apple Computer, Inc. v. Microsoft Corporation, 35 F.3d 1435 (9th Cir. 1994), [1] was a copyright infringement lawsuit in which Apple Computer, Inc. (now Apple Inc.) sought to prevent Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard from using visual graphical user interface (GUI) elements that were similar to those in Apple's Lisa and Macintosh operating systems. [2]
Microsoft Corp. and Activision Blizzard, Inc. is a lawsuit brought against multinational technology corporation Microsoft and video game holding company Activision Blizzard in 2022. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sought a temporary injunction against Microsoft in its effort to acquire Activision Blizzard.
[4] [2] Microsoft also had the backing of companies such as Amazon, Apple, Google, [6] Dropbox and Salesforce in the lawsuit. [5] The company claimed that over the 18 months prior, federal judges had approved 2,600 secret searches of Microsoft customers' data, [ 2 ] with 68 percent of those cases involving secrecy orders with no expiration date ...
This is detailed in several books about Microsoft, including Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire. [citation needed] A US state lawsuit was brought against Microsoft in 1992 representing 8,558 current and former employees that had been classified as "temporary" and "freelance", and became known as Vizcaino v.
Microsoft Corp. v. Baker, 582 U.S. ___ (2017), is a United States Supreme Court case holding that Federal courts of appeals lack jurisdiction to review a denial of class certification after plaintiffs have voluntarily dismissed their claims with prejudice.