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From: gwangung@milton.u.washington.edu (Roger Tang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Lotus lawsuit/Look and feel
Message-ID: <4584@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 29 Jun 90 15:31:48 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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	Noted in the 6/29/30 NY TIMES:

	Lotus has won, on the appeals level, their look-and-feel lawsuit
they have leveled against one of their clone competitors.  The judge in the
case, Judge Keeton, wrote, "I conclude that a menu command system is capable
of being expressed in many if not an unlimited number of ways and the
command structure of 1-2-3 is an original and non-obvious way of
expressing a command structure."

	I leave it as an excercise to the student on the applicability to
the Apple-Microsoft suit.