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From: ctne_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Chris Newbold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac,comp.misc,misc.legal
Subject: Re: Xerox sues Apple!!!
Message-ID: <4543@ur-cc.UUCP>
Date: 15 Dec 89 20:56:39 GMT
References: <4540@ur-cc.UUCP> <18158@netnews.upenn.edu>
Reply-To: ctne_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Chris Newbold)
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In article <18158@netnews.upenn.edu> jeff@eniac.seas.upenn.edu.UUCP (Jeffrey M White) writes:
>In article <4540@ur-cc.UUCP> ctne_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Chris Newbold) writes:
>>IMHO, I would like to see Apple get roasted by this lawsuit...  Flames to
>>/dev/null, please.
>
>  I'm no legal expect, but I don't think Xerox has a very good case.  For one
>thing, why sue now?  The Mac/Lisa interface has been out for almost 8 years, 
>with virtually no change.  It's hardly like Apple all of a sudden came out

From what I remember of the article, Xerox has waited all of this time while
various "ambiguities" in the relevent laws have been ironed out in court
over the last several years.




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