Microsoft may be forced to delay the introduction of its Xbox game console because of a trademark dispute over the Xbox brand with a small Florida company, according to published reports. Xbox Technologies, a holding company of software businesses, may take Microsoft to court because it said it had the first claim on the Xbox brand, the Financial Times reported on its FT.com Web site. Xbox Technologies, based in Coconut Grove, Fla., filed the first of 47 current applications for the Xbox brand with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in March 1999, FT.com said.
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