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From: glass@anableps.berkeley.edu (Brett Glass)
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Subject: Re: Metaphor vs. Xerox
Keywords: Look Feel Litigation Crisis
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An additional irony: As you may recall, IBM licensed Metaphor's interface
some months ago with the belief that it was "non-infringing" and hence
would justify their use of mice, icons, etc. in their own products.

This belief may (alas!) turn out to have been mistaken.

<BG>

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