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From: millert@tramp.Colorado.EDU (MILLER TODD C)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac,comp.misc,misc.legal
Subject: Re: Xerox sues Apple!!!
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Date: 15 Dec 89 22:33:25 GMT
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One reason Xerox is sueing Apple _now_ may be that Xerox was (fairly) recently
awarded patents on the Star operating environment.  Patent infringements are 
usually more easily proven than copyright ones.  

  Just a thought.
                  -Todd 

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