United States Fourth Circuit

Because the district court was unable to find immediate irreparable harm and because it entered a preliminary injunction that does not aid or protect the court's ability to enter final relief on plaintiff's PC operating systems monopolization claim, the mandatory preliminary injunction is vacated. The district court did not err in construing the scope of the license granted by plaintiff to defendant.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/26/2003
• Published 06/26/2003

Judges

• Before WIDENER, NIEMEYER, and GREGORY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED: David Bruce Tulchin, Sullivan & Cromwell, L.L.P., New York, New York, for Appellant.  Lloyd R. Day, Jr., Day, Casebeer, Madrid & Batchelder, L.L.P., Cupertino, California, for Appellee.   ONBRIEF: Steven L. Holley, Michael Lacovara, Marc De Leeuw, Brian T. Frawley, Sullivan & Cromwell, L.L.P., New York, New York;  Michael F. Brockmeyer, Piper Rudnick, L.L.P., Baltimore, Maryland;  David T. McDonald, Karl J. Quackenbush, Preston, Gates & Ellis, L.L.P., Seattle, Washington;  Thomas W. Burt, Richard J. Wallis, Linda K. Norman, Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Washington;  Matthew L. Larrabee, Darryl Snider, A. Mari Mazour, Heller, Ehrman, White & Mcauliffe, L.L.P., San Francisco, California, for Appellant.  James R. Batchelder, Robert M. Galvin, Day, Casebeer, Madrid & Batchelder, L.L.P., Cupertino, California;  Kevin J. Arquit, Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett, New York, New York;  Thomas M. Wilson, John B. Isbister, Tydings & Rosenberg, L.L.P., Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellee.  O. Yale Lewis, Jr., Stacia N. Lay, Hendricks & Lewis, Seattle, Washington;  Kenneth C. Bass, III, Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.L.L.C., Washington, D.C., for Amicus WildTangent.  Evan R. Chesler, Katherine B. Forrest, Cravath, Swaine & Moore, New York, New York;  Jeffrey A. Rosen, Richard A. Cordray, Elizabeth S. Petrela, Kirkland & Ellis, Washington, D.C.;  James P. Ulwick, Kramon & Graham, Baltimore, Maryland, for Amicus Netscape.