Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!jato!vsnyder From: vsnyder@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Van Snyder) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Apple wins against Microsoft Windows/HP New Wave Message-ID: <1991Mar13.184236.26029@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> Date: 13 Mar 91 18:42:36 GMT References: <1991Mar12.184506.8109@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> <1991Mar13.163621.6682@midway.uchicago.edu> Reply-To: vsnyder@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Van Snyder) Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA Lines: 21 NOTE network.thought.police: don't read this article. In article <1991Mar13.163621.6682@midway.uchicago.edu> jcav@quads.uchicago.edu (john cavallino) writes: >In article mc4c+@andrew.cmu.edu (Mark Choi) writes: >>Xerox has mentioned publicly that it intends to pursue legal action >>against Apple Corp.. > >The Xerox action against Apple came before a judge sometime last year (or >1989, not sure), and it was thrown out of court. I think the judge said >something about Xerox having waited too long to bring the action. > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ It's called the "doctrine of laches:" If somebody else is using your property, and you know it, and you do nothing to protect it, after a certain period of time (5 years, think, but perhaps depending on the property and jurisdiction), you no longer have the right to protect it. -- vsnyder@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov ames!elroy!jato!vsnyder vsnyder@jato.uucp