Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ncrlnk!ncrcae!hubcap!gatech!rutgers!ucsd!ames!elroy!jato!jbrown From: jbrown@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Jordan Brown) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: HP responds to Apple's "Look and Feel" lawsuit Message-ID: <264@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> Date: 7 Oct 88 02:02:09 GMT References: Reply-To: jbrown@jato.UUCP (Jordan Brown) Organization: Me? Organized? Lines: 20 In article <> W8SDZ@SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL (Keith Petersen) writes: >In documents filed with the U.S. District Court here, HP maintains that >the Mac's graphical interface is based on work done by other companies - >in particular, Xerox Corp. The documents further state that Apple >obtained copyright registrations on the screen display fraudulently by >not disclosing to the U.S. Copyright Office that the Mac's display was >derived from Xerox's work. My understanding is that the Apple patent is on the pull-down menus, not on a "graphical interface". If you examine the Xerox work (or for that matter Sun et al) you find really very little resemblance to the Apple work. On the other hand, comparing Mac with MS-Windows, you find a great deal of similarity. (A Mac user could move to MSW with no effort; the same is definitely *not* true about moving to X windows, for instance.) Unless you consider Apple to own all bitmap interfaces using mouses as pointing devices, they conflict only with a few other products - notably MSW, formerly GEM. (Take a look at how little DRI had to change GEM to make Apple happy.)