Wednesday, April 3, 2002
Little Guy Takes on Software Giant and loses
Posted by Jason Dunn in "NEWS" @ 10:54 AM
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020403/ap_on_hi_te/pocket_pc_battle_2&cid=528
Remember this guy and his "Pocket PC"? Well, he had his day in court and lost because, gosh, Microsoft "had too much evidence". What was he expecting? What a scam artist...
"It was not the usual courtroom battle for Microsoft Corp. No teams of lawyers. No reams of documents. No streams of delays. But still, even in small claims court Tuesday, the software titan was a formidable opponent.
Entrepreneur Ken Belanger sued the Redmond, Wash.-based company for trademark infringement, but after Marianne Petersen, a Microsoft paralegal, appeared before Court Commissioner Sue Kaplan with a binder of evidence — and Belanger had only a few slips of paper — the 40-year-old San Francisco resident withdrew that claim. "I couldn't win there," Belanger said later outside the courtroom. "They have too much evidence." Source: Sean Hanley
Remember this guy and his "Pocket PC"? Well, he had his day in court and lost because, gosh, Microsoft "had too much evidence". What was he expecting? What a scam artist...
"It was not the usual courtroom battle for Microsoft Corp. No teams of lawyers. No reams of documents. No streams of delays. But still, even in small claims court Tuesday, the software titan was a formidable opponent.
Entrepreneur Ken Belanger sued the Redmond, Wash.-based company for trademark infringement, but after Marianne Petersen, a Microsoft paralegal, appeared before Court Commissioner Sue Kaplan with a binder of evidence — and Belanger had only a few slips of paper — the 40-year-old San Francisco resident withdrew that claim. "I couldn't win there," Belanger said later outside the courtroom. "They have too much evidence." Source: Sean Hanley
