Ibexx & all, - "Microsoft files brief to stop Sun injunction".
infoworld.com
By Elinor Mills
InfoWorld Electric
Posted at 7:01 PM PT, Feb 10, 1998
Microsoft has filed a brief urging a U.S.
federal court to reject a request by Sun
Microsystems to block Microsoft's use
of the "Java compatible" logo until a legal dispute
between the software companies is resolved.
"We have always used the Java language
and Java Compatibility Logo in compliance with
the terms of the contract freely signed
by Microsoft and Sun," said Tom Burt, Microsoft's
associate general counsel, in a statement
on Microsoft's Web site.
Microsoft believes Sun is trying to use
the court to rewrite the contract, Burt said.
Sun officials did not return a phone call
Tuesday seeking comment on the Microsoft filing
last Friday in U.S. District Court in
San Jose, California.
Sun sued Microsoft in October of last
year, claiming that Microsoft's Internet Explorer
browser and development kit are not fully
Java-compatible, thus violating the Java
licensing agreement Microsoft signed
with Sun in March 1996.
Later in October, Microsoft countersued
Sun, alleging that Sun violated the terms of the
Java licensing agreement by failing to
deliver technology that passed Sun's own Java test
suites and also failing to provide a public
set of test suites for Java.
The Microsoft brief, which contains
confidential information from both companies, was
filed under seal because of a protective
order imposed by the court, Microsoft said.
A hearing is scheduled for Feb. 27 for
oral arguments before U.S. District Judge Ronald
Whyte on Sun's preliminary injunction request. |
