"Microsoft's claim to the word "Windows" suffered another blow this week when a federal judge again questioned the company's assertion that the term is not generic.
"The judge also repeated his denial of Microsoft's request to shut down the Lindows.com site and block its owner from advertising its product. Coughenour on Tuesday reiterated his previous decision in a seven-page ruling, saying competitors and dictionary definitions demonstrated that the "consuming public used the terms 'windows,' 'window' and 'windowing' to indicate a general type of user interface." He said the term was generic in the same way that the words "light" in "light beer" and "matchbox" in "matchbox toys" are. "Coughenour also cited Microsoft's own use of the word "windowing" in its documentation as proof that the term is generic." http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=70&ncid=70&e=2&u=/cn/2002051 6/tc_cn/microsoft_dealt_another_blow_on_lindows Mark Post
