Judge sides with Apple on Copyright issues

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From: Sean Eric Fagan
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1991 17:19

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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.

-- 
Sean Eric Fagan  | "What *does* that 33 do?  I have no idea."
sef@kithrup.COM  |           -- Chris Torek
-----------------+              (torek@ee.lbl.gov)
Any opinions expressed are my own, and generally unpopular with others.

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