A federal appeals court has rejected Go Computer's antitrust suit against Microsoft, which alleged that Go was unfairly forced out of business more than a decade ago by the much larger company.
The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday upheld a ruling last year from a trial judge who dismissed the lawsuit brought by the now-defunct pioneering pen computing company.
This is one of the last remaining private antitrust lawsuits against Microsoft outstanding; almost all of the rest have been settled or otherwise resolved.
The lawsuit claims Microsoft took aggressively anti-competitive measures against Go nearly 20 years ago, including pressuring Intel to keep its distance from the new company, coercing other developers not to write software for Go, stealing trade secrets, and creating a competitor to Go's PenPoint called "PenWindows."
