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From: ekwok@cadev4.intel.com (Edward C. Kwok)
Newsgroups: misc.legal,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.apple,comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.hp,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Apple Challenges HP New Wave, MS-Windows, Potentially OS/2 PM
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Date: 22 Mar 88 16:47:45 GMT
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Keywords: Apple Mac HP Microsoft Windows OS/2 New Wave Frivolous Litigation


If I understand the Apple suit correctly, it is based on some copyrights 
that Apple registered. There is, of course, the gratuitous unfair competition
charge.  Apparently, to win, Apple must demonstrate that their copyrights
are valid (my understanding is that copyrights are not valid until challenged
and upheld by a court. I can be wrong, obviously.) The unfair competition
charge will also fail if it can be shown that people will confuse the Microsoft
and HP products with the Mac. Hardly a likely event, I think. From the
picture I saw on newspapers, the HP product looks more like the generic
"window" stuff on microvaxes, apollos and suns, than it is like the macintosh. 

I am sure HP, Microsoft will hire the best legal help money can procure.
Xerox, of course, will take on the rest of the computer industry after this.
(Bravo!) 

P.S. How much did Xerox close today?  ;-)