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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Xerox sues Apple!!!
Message-ID: <1939@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 19 Dec 89 20:09:12 GMT
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In article <5136@skinner.nprdc.arpa> malloy@nprdc.arpa (Sean Malloy) writes:
|                          If Apple brought out the Mac and Lisa
| _before_ the patent was filed, Xerox can't sue for patent
| infringement. 

  True, but not complete. Xerox may be able to (a) get some of Apples
copyrights and/or patents disallowed, and (b) sue for any royalties
which Apple has been collecting from other vendors.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called
'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see
that the world is flat!" - anon