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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
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Subject: Re: Xerox sues Apple!!!
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Date: 18 Dec 89 14:55:52 GMT
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In article <25153@cup.portal.com> Will@cup.portal.com (Will E Estes) writes:
|                         Apple must know that it cannot win the Microsoft
| case, just as it knows that Xerox cannot win a copyright infringement
| case against Apple.  

  Xerox has a patent on some of the technology. This gives them the
chance to go after Apple two ways. As to Apple suing a clone maker is
they lose to Microsoft and/or Xerox, they have a good legal department,
and would have to be VERY careful about a suit. There is a legal action
for damages which can be brought in countersuit, based on the legal
principle that "you can be sued for harrasment if you file a suit which
you know has no legal merit."

  Certainly having just had their copyrights declared invalid or
unenforcable would open them to such a suit. I would expect a suit on
much more narrow grounds.
-- 
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