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Article #4987Re: Hypercard license Infringement !!
From: Chuq Von Rospach
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1989 19:53
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1989 19:53
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>Today (9-21-89) I got a call from our pattent office >saying that SRI cold be held liable for patent infringement >because of hypercards scripting capabilities. >A company called HyperZoom wants SRI to protect itself by buying >a license from them for about $10 a mac. >They say they got our name from MacWeek's list of the top 100 companies >that use macintoshes. >The patent covers something called zoomrect that they showed to apple >and after they shown it , scrolling fields were put into hypercard. >Has any of the other companies received this letter? Many. HyperZoom has yet to prove anything to anyone, which hasn't stopped them from trying to 'convince' people to send them 'licensing fees'. chuq (translate 'convince' to 'coerce' and 'licensing fees' to 'protection money' and you get my feeling on the matter. There isn't any legal indication that the patent is either valid or relevant...) -- Chuq Von Rospach <+> Editor,OtherRealms <+> Member SFWA/ASFA chuq@apple.com <+> CI$: 73317,635 <+> [This is myself speaking. I am not Appl Segmentation Fault. Core dumped.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!att!dptg!rutgers!apple!chuq From: chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Hypercard license Infringement !! Message-ID: <34926@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 21 Sep 89 19:53:04 GMT References: Hyperzoom,zoomrect <3710@unix.SRI.COM> Distribution: na Organization: Life is just a Fantasy novel played for keeps Lines: 28