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From: rich@ultra.com (Rich Fall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re^2: Xerox sues Apple!!!
Message-ID: <1989Dec20.012729.28326@ultra.com>
Date: 20 Dec 89 01:27:29 GMT
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davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) writes:

>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

Unless, of course, the statute of limitations has expired for this type of
suit, which it may have already done....