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  • High-tech trademark troubles: Lindows

    Microsoft's intriguing legal fight to prevent a start-up from identifying itself and its software as "Lindows" provides some valuable lessons for companies of every size--including Microsoft itself, which has had more trademark troubles than necessary for a Fortune 100 company.

  • SCO wanted to gag Torvalds

    Unix company was gathering information to support a court order to silence individuals related to its open-source legal case against IBM.

  • Aussie Olympian blogs muzzled, not censored

    Australian athletes' blogs will not be censored during the Beijing Olympics, according to the Australian Olympic Committee president, but the International Olympic Committee is preventing them from profiting from the games' name.

  • Jokester serious about taking on Microsoft

    Ken Belanger says he created a joke Pocket PC 17 years ago and is claiming a common-law trademark on the product--and seeking control of pocketpc.com.

  • Guerilla tactics will win music war

    Gagging Napster may be the easiest battle for the recording industry to face. Finding other, more secretive operations is where the real challenge lies. Some say it's a war the big labels cannot win.

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