NETSCAPE COMMUNICATIONS, A subsidiary of Internet and media giant AOL Time Warner, filed a lawsuit against Microsoft Tuesday, alleging that the software maker harmed Netscape with anticompetitive practices related to the Windows operating system.

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The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. Federal District Court for the District of Columbia, according to a statement from Netscape, which was acquired by America Online in 1999, which merged last year with Time Warner.

Microsoft's illegal anticompetitive practices, upheld in a U.S. Appeals Court ruling, "resulted in harm to competition and antitrust injury to Netscape in particular," the filing alleges, according to the Netscape statement.

The lawsuit is similar to the federal antitrust case against Microsoft, Netscape said.

The U.S. Department of Justice and nine state attorneys general have reached a tentative settlement in the case, but nine other states and the District of Columbia have refused to sign off on the deal and continue to pursue legal action against Microsoft.