wolfgang@mgm.mit.edu (Wolfgang Rupprecht) (10/18/89)
From 10/16/89 EE Times: Apple Computer Inc. filed another federal suit last week. This time Apple is claiming that Quickview Systems Inc. and HyperRacks Inc. are unfairly accusing it of patent infringements. Quickview claims that Apple is infringing on its Hypercard interface. Apple claims that the patent is invalid. Apple is seeking an injunction preventing Quickview from "instituting any action or proceedings or threatening litigation against Apple." The hearing is scheduled for Feb. 5, 1990. --- Wolfgang Rupprecht ARPA: wolfgang@mgm.mit.edu (IP 18.82.0.114) TEL: (703) 768-2640 UUCP: mit-eddie!mgm.mit.edu!wolfgang
pplacewa@BBN.COM (Paul W. Placeway) (10/18/89)
wolfgang@mgm.mit.edu (Wolfgang Rupprecht) writes:
< From 10/16/89 EE Times:
< .... Apple is seeking an injunction preventing
< Quickview from "instituting any action or proceedings or threatening
< litigation against Apple." The hearing is scheduled for Feb. 5, 1990.
There is an obvious (and not so suprising) method to Apple's N
lawsuits: whatever it takes, as long as it's benificial to Apple. One
must keep in mind that this is the same attitude that _many_ other
large coporations have taken in the past.
That still doesn't make it right, though, just commmon. Maybe if
Apple keeps this up, they will set a precedent invalidating their own
claims. Probably not, though. Any lawyer stupid enough to let that
happen wouldn't be working for Apple in the first place.
Isn't Law fun? :-(
-- Paul Placeway <PPlaceway@bbn.com>
Am I a wizard? Are you qualified to judge? Does it really
matter in the end? "What I am is what I am, are you what
you are or what?" -- E.B.