Apple broadens attack in copyright lawsuit

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Apple Computer Inc changes tactics in its lawsuit against Microsoft Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co, asking the court to rescind a licensing agreement between Apple and Microsoft. If the request is granted, Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard will be vulnerable because they have based much of their defense on the licensing agreement. In Apple's lawsuit, which dates from Mar 1988, the company claims that Microsoft's Windows 2.03 and Hewlett-Packard's New Wave violated Apple's copyrights on the screen display of the Macintosh microcomputer. Judge Vaughn R. Walker of the US District Court in San Francisco will consider Apple's motion on Jun 14, 1991. He will also consider a request by Apple that the case be broadened to include Windows 3.0, and he will reconsider a motion by Hewlett-Packard contending that Apple's original copyrights are fraudulent.

AAPL, HWP, MSFT, Microsoft Windows (GUI), Licensing, Computer Industry, Apple Macintosh (680X0-based system), NewWave (GUI)

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Apple case ruling favors Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard

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Apple's copyright infringement suit against HP and Microsoft ended in the two companies' favor. Apple announced that it will appeal the decision of a Federal District Court judge. The suit was filed in 1988 with Apple accusing Microsoft and HP of copying the look and feel of the user-friendly features of Apple's Lisa and Macintosh microcomputers. The icons and pull-down menus that are now common in many software packages and are used by Microsoft's Windows graphical user interface and HP's New Wave were introduced by Apple. In deciding the case, the judge limited it to the issue of whether Windows' and New Wave's appearance is virtually identical to Apple's Lisa. The decision allowed the stocks of the three companies to surge on May 31, 1993.

Prepackaged software, Computer peripheral equipment, not elsewhere classified, Computer software industry, Software industry, Legal Issues, Software architectures, Court Cases, Software Architecture

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