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From: redman@zaphod.ncsa.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Jonathan (Apple patents)
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Date: 21 Apr 89 16:34:00 GMT
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Nf-From: zaphod.ncsa.uiuc.edu!redman    Apr 21 11:34:00 1989


I can tell you by personal experience that apple does have a patent on
pulldown menus. The method of selecting a menu item using the mouse is
incorporated into the mouse patent.

I have reviewed this document and can vouch for its existence. Hard to
believe, isn't it?

Tom Redman
National Center for Supercomputing Applications