Cable & Wireless has won the latest skirmish in a long-running legal battle with Akamai Technologies.
A federal judge ruled that C&W can continue selling its Internet content delivery product. The decision, from Judge Rya Zobel, was handed down Friday and made public yesterday.
Akamai argued that Cable & Wireless was in contempt of an earlier order to stop selling a product using technology that infringed on an Akamai patent.
But the court said C&W, which has contenet delivery operations in San Francisco, had complied by making changes to the product. Akamai said it is considering an appeal of its contempt motion.
"We are disappointed the District Court denied Akamai's motion to hold Cable & Wireless in contempt of the permanent injunction that the Court issued on Aug. 22, 2002, but, in a companion ruling also made last Friday, the Court also denied C&W's attempt to have the entire permanent injunction stayed, or put on hold, pending appeal," Akamai spokesman Jeff Young told internetnews.com
Young said the Cambridge, Mass, company will seek monetary damages as a result of the infringement establshed during trial. That phase of the lawsuit should reach court in the summer or fall of 2003.
The two sides have been battling over the core technology of systems that speed delivery of content over the Internet for more that two years.
