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The i4i v. Microsoft Order Staying the Injunction

By Pamela Jones et al.

I have the Order [PDF] for you from the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in the i4i v. Microsoft case. Checking the docket, we see there are some other documents we haven't seen yet, and we'll try to get those next week. It's puzzling why the court makes some documents digitally available but not the briefs. For example, the Washington Legal Foundation filed an amicus brief, and i4i filed an opposition and then Microsoft replied, and we haven't seen any of that, or even heard about it. The Foundation is linked to the law firm where Bill Gates' father's used to practice law, K & L Gates LLP, before his retirement.

It's frustrating that the media tells us what is in an order, or part of what it in an order, or what the order might mean, but they don't provide the order itself or all the briefs. Please, guys, if you have the documents, send them to me if you don't want to publish yourselves. We'll gladly make them available, and you can give yourselves a head start if you wish before I publish. But this is history, and we should be documenting what is happening, don't you think? And this case can affect a lot of people, so we are naturally interested. If any journalist has any of these missing filings, please email me, to save Groklaw folks another trip on foot. I don't at all understand why neither party is making these documents more readily available.

Full post as published by Groklaw on September 05, 2009 (boomark / email).