The US judges who have

The US judges who have had to deal with Microsoft have usually been unimpressive (in fact, two have had to be removed from cases) but District Judge John Coughenour seems to be an exception, at least from reports of his judgement in the Lindows case. Microsoft sued this tiny company because it considered the name too close to Windows. In his preliminary ruling, not only did the judge decline to go along with Microsoft's bullying tactics, he questioned Microsoft's own right to trademark such a commonly used term.