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Started by Merlyn Leroy <Brian Westley>
Wed, 28 Nov 1984 18:11
pop-up/pull-down menus
Author: Merlyn Leroy <Brian Westley>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 1984 18:11
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 1984 18:11
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Anyone want to speculate on what Apple is going to do with their
patent of pop-up/pull-down menus? I believe they were granted a patent
a few months ago - a lot of new, heavy duty software uses them
(TopView, Windows, Symphony?). I kind of like the idea of Apple suing
IBM, and throwing a big monkey wrench into their windowing environment.
However, the blurb I read might be as accurate as the stuff printed up
a couple of years ago, when someone was granted a patent having to do
with color-coding phonetic diagrams or somesuch, and the story got out
as someone getting a patent on *using color* on computer displays.
Anyone have more info on what the patent covers/doesn't cover?
Merlyn Leroy
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Re: pop-up/pull-down menus
Author: Cheshire Chuqui
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 1984 20:46
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 1984 20:46
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> Anyone want to speculate on what Apple is going to do with their
>patent of pop-up/pull-down menus? I believe they were granted a patent
>a few months ago - a lot of new, heavy duty software uses them
>(TopView, Windows, Symphony?). I kind of like the idea of Apple suing
>IBM, and throwing a big monkey wrench into their windowing environment.
Well, the first thing they are going to do is go to court. I've heard that
xerox is already challenging the patent in court. The second thing I expect
them to do is lose the patent because Xerox has been doing that with pop-up
menus for a long, long, long time. The patent is unenforcable, and I expect
Apple knows it. It might make a nice harrasement tool if Apple ever decides
it needs one, it will definitely make Mac-compatible developers think
twice because it gives Apple a way of dragging them into a nice expensive
battle (even if Apples lawyers and the other people's lawyers KNOW it is
unenforcable it could still cost them millions of dollars to prove it) and
it gives the authors something nice to put on their resumes.....
chuq (I ***love*** lawyers..)
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