Microsoft sued Lindows for trademark infringement in December 2001, claiming the company's Web site was trying to illegally capitalise on its Window name.
The 1992 case centred on Apple's claim that Microsoft's use of windows and other elements infringed on Apple's Mac OS copyright. Microsoft successfully defended itself by arguing that those elements had been used by other companies besides Apple.
Lindows said it planned to use Microsoft's earlier material to bolster Lindows' own defence that Microsoft should not be able to control the use of the word "windows".
