Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!hodge!rusty
From: rusty@hodge.UUCP (Rusty Hodge)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Apple Challenges HP New Wave, MS-Wi
Message-ID: <146@hodge.UUCP>
Date: 25 Mar 88 00:36:47 GMT
References: <5480@well.UUCP> <76000164@uiucdcsp>
Organization: Hodge Computer Research Corp., Orange, CA
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Summary: Yeh, but Apple was granted several *patents*.


Blame the Patent Office.  They granted Apple patents on several key
parts of the user interface.  So legally, Apple can force people to
license the interface parts covered by the patents.

I don't know if you've ever looked at the patents for the Telebit
Trailblazer modems, but they are worded in such a way that they could
almost be applied to *any* modem.  They *do* have a patent on using
multiple carrier frequencies.  They also have a couple of patents on
techniques used in virtually all current modems.

In our law, it doesn't matter who did it first, but who got the
patents first.

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