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In <1991Jul26.171911.10999@kithrup.COM> sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:

*A federal judge in San Francisco threw out several claims raised by
*Microsoft Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co. on Thursday in response to a
*copyright suit by Apple Computer Inc. over its Macintosh display technology.
*
*In a series of pretrial rulings, U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker said
*Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard would not be allwed to argue at trial that the
*Macintosh pictorial display lacked the originality needed for copyright
*protection.
*
*-- From today's Mercury News.  There's more, but it just gives some
*background information.
*
*This is probably the worst news I could have seen about this:  the judge has
*decided that Look'n'Feel is a copyrightable issue, even before letting a
*jury or legislation do so.
*

Its not as bad as all that.  What's going on here is that the judge is 
telling Microsoft and HP that Apple is not on trial, they are.  

I think that if you go and read some of the case law on user interface
copyright you wouldn't have such an extreme reaction to this ruling.

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