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Article #26732Re: Apple Challenges HP New Wave, MS-Wi
From: Rusty Hodge
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 1988 00:36
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 1988 00:36
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Blame the Patent Office. They granted Apple patents on several key parts of the user interface. So legally, Apple can force people to license the interface parts covered by the patents. I don't know if you've ever looked at the patents for the Telebit Trailblazer modems, but they are worded in such a way that they could almost be applied to *any* modem. They *do* have a patent on using multiple carrier frequencies. They also have a couple of patents on techniques used in virtually all current modems. In our law, it doesn't matter who did it first, but who got the patents first. -- Rusty Hodge, Hodge Computer Research Corp, Orange, CA 92667 (714) 974-6300 rusty@hodge.cts.com [ccicpg!arnold, crash]!hodge!rusty FAX (714) 921-8038 uucp: (714) 921-1090 (login: nuucp) Dial-A-Joke (714) 966-0976
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!hodge!rusty From: rusty@hodge.UUCP (Rusty Hodge) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Apple Challenges HP New Wave, MS-Wi Message-ID: <146@hodge.UUCP> Date: 25 Mar 88 00:36:47 GMT References: <5480@well.UUCP> <76000164@uiucdcsp> Organization: Hodge Computer Research Corp., Orange, CA Lines: 18 Summary: Yeh, but Apple was granted several *patents*.