Both sides are preparing for a trial that is scheduled to begin in Seattle on April 7, when a jury is expected to begin weighing whether Lindows is an illegal copycat brand and whether Microsoft's trademark on Windows should be taken away.
The now-closed Silk Road, said to be one of the world's largest websites selling illegal drugs, branded itself an "anonymous marketplace" because users accessed the site through Tor, a piece of software that hides browsers' identities.
The now-closed Silk Road, said to be one of the world's largest websites selling illegal drugs, branded itself an "anonymous marketplace" because users accessed the site through the "deep web" - parts of the internet not covered by standard search engines -so they can hide their identity.
"MasterCard has rules that prohibit our cards from being used for illegal or brand-damaging activities," said Seth Eisen, MasterCard's external communications leader, in an email to HuffPost.
This is the border state that brought us the Minutemen, where duly elected Yosemite Sams keep thinking up new ways to brand illegal immigrants as a class of undesirables and criminals.
He found himself on a collision course with president George W. Bush over the U.S. invasion of Iraq, which Annan could only brand "illegal" under the U.N. Charter.
"Without illegal shit, my brand wouldn't be where it is," he tells me between bites of a Japanese beef burger on a brioche bun.
Apple's fear that Bitcoin might be branded illegal is keeping apps off the store.
It was at that first press conference in his own Trump Tower that he branded illegal Mexican immigrants "criminals" and "rapists".
The Republican primary campaign quashed that cooperative spirit; any talk of legalization for illegal immigrants was branded with a scarlet letter, A, for Amnesty (fueled, in part, by the former CNN commentator Lou Dobbs).
