The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday denied Microsoft's appeal that the term "windows" be considered only as it is understood by the public today—not as it was when the company's Windows was introduced in 1985—as the company's trademark litigation against Lindows continues.
Lindows hopes to prove that prior to the adoption of Windows by Microsoft, 'windowing' and 'windows' were used for a particular feature of computer graphic user interfaces: namely, the ability to open files within so-called 'windows' and of opening multiple 'windows' on the computer screen to work on different programs or files.
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