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From: rterry@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com (Ray Terry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Re: Apple Computer wins ruling against 'Windows'
Message-ID: <67830001@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com>
Date: 18 Mar 91 17:35:35 GMT
References: <1991Mar15.101202.1@csc.anu.edu.au>
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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The incredible shrinking lawsuit
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     Issues at stake in the lawsuit filed March 17, 1988, by Apple
Computer against Microsoft and HP for alleged copyright infringement
(related to Microsoft Windows 2.03 and the HP NewWave software
environment) continue to shrink in the latest court ruling.      On
March 6, Judge Vaughn Walker filed papers in San Francisco at the U.S.
District Court, Northern District of California, which:

     o  confirmed rejection of Apple's fundamental contention that
        the total "look and feel" of the Macintosh graphical user
        interface is protected by copyright;

     o  denied Apple's motion that the court declare its copyrights
        valid; and

     o  further narrowed the number of items still at issue for HP.
        (Remaining items are trivial.  For example, Apple claims
        copyright protection for the ability to center the name of an
        icon. HP points out that words can only be positioned left,
        right or center, so Apple is not entitled to "own" one of
        those presentations.)

     Judge Walker asked the parties to meet some time in the next 45
days to prepare for a status conference.