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From: ctne_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Chris Newbold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Xerox sues Apple!!!
Message-ID: <4548@ur-cc.UUCP>
Date: 16 Dec 89 18:46:01 GMT
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Reply-To: ctne_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Chris Newbold)
Organization: University of Rochester
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In article <7066@chaph.usc.edu> eickmeye@girtab.usc.edu (Biff Henderson) writes:
>The following article is from the Los Angeles Times, Friday, 
>December 15, 1989, page D3.
>
>     An Apple spokeswoman said the company believes that the suit 
>is without merit and that Xerox is attempting to assert its right 
>to copyright an idea, rather than merely an expression of an 
>idea.

And Apple hasn't tried to "copyright" an idea by suing anyone who comes near
their coveted little user-interface?  Come on....




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