<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">At the close of the US litigation, Lindows.com says it expects to have a judgment invalidating the Windows trademark as generic. It then intends to protest the trademark abroad under the Department of Commerce's programme covering the use of English generic words. This is intended "to protect foreign markets for American products and services by opposing the registration by foreign governments of trademarks which are generic terms." Microsoft could therefore lose the Windows trademarks it has, in attempting to enforce them against Lindows.</font>

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">The Lindows.com pitch is relatively simple. It says that Microsoft has repeatedly engineered delays in its US case against Lindows.com, where Microsoft has not been granted a preliminary injunction, but is aggressively pursuing action elsewhere, where the TM ground is more fertile. The continuation of those actions, says Lindows.com, will force it to change its name, and thus the US court and jury will never have a chance to consider the case.</font>

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Is_907:
maybe Longhorn will have a different name when it's released like... Doors (=

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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by alpha1:
some examples are; gun, rocket launcher, first person shooter, Star, Wars, War(note: only if it is capitalised) and some other words.</font>