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Article #44448Re: What if... (was: Re: Xerox sues Apple!)
From: Marc T. Kaufman
Date: Mon, 25 Dec 1989 17:04
Date: Mon, 25 Dec 1989 17:04
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In article <GJB.89Dec25011658@heloise.cs.brown.edu> gjb@cs.brown.edu (Greg Brail) writes: >What if: >Coke sued Pepsi for the "look and feel" of their soft drink? >The Wright brothers sued all the other airplane manufacturers? The Wright brothers DID sue other manufacturers who attempted to infringe on their "wing warping" patent. In particular, they sued Glenn Curtis, who was forced to invent ailerons to circumvent the patent. Good thing, too. Can you imagine a 747 using wing warping for roll control? >[others deleted...] >IBM sued other computer companies that used a command-line interface? or who used, say, a smart IO channel-type bus... [MCI] >Levis sued other blue jeans companies? Just other companies who use rivets in the same pattern >Apple sued Microsoft, and then Xerox sued Apple? >(Oops. That one really happened.) Marc Kaufman (kaufman@Neon.stanford.edu)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!sun-barr!decwrl!shelby!neon!kaufman From: kaufman@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: What if... (was: Re: Xerox sues Apple!) Message-ID: <1989Dec25.170400.12576@Neon.Stanford.EDU> Date: 25 Dec 89 17:04:00 GMT References: <GJB.89Dec25011658@heloise.cs.brown.edu> Sender: USENET News System <news@Neon.Stanford.EDU> Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University Lines: 23