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Article #4952Hypercard license Infringement !!
From: Matt Mora
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1989 16:44
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1989 16:44
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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. They say that its possible to infringe on the patent by using hyperTalk. And to save SRI the hassel of checking all stacks that are created in house or to be released commercially, that SRI should just buy a license from them. Has any of the other companies received this letter? -- ___________________________________________________________ Matthew Mora SRI International stores@unix.sri.com ___________________________________________________________
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!rutgers!unix!stores From: stores@unix.SRI.COM (Matt Mora) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Hypercard license Infringement !! Message-ID: <3710@unix.SRI.COM> Date: 21 Sep 89 16:44:38 GMT References: Hyperzoom,zoomrect Reply-To: stores@sri-unix.sri.com (Matt Mora) Followup-To: comp.sys.mac Distribution: na Organization: SRI International, Menlo Park, CA Lines: 25