Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2.fluke 9/24/84; site vax4.fluke.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!drutx!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!fluke!moriarty From: moriarty@fluke.UUCP (Jeff Meyer) Newsgroups: net.micro.atari,net.micro.mac Subject: Re: DRI agrees to change GEM Message-ID: <2750@vax4.fluke.UUCP> Date: Fri, 4-Oct-85 12:12:11 EDT Article-I.D.: vax4.2750 Posted: Fri Oct 4 12:12:11 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 5-Oct-85 08:06:30 EDT References: <3208@nsc.UUCP> <87@druhi.UUCP> Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc., Everett, WA Lines: 19 Xref: watmath net.micro.atari:1264 net.micro.mac:2838 In article <87@druhi.UUCP> lbl@druhi.UUCP (LocklearLB) writes: >I don't have any legal expertise, but it looks like Apple doesn't have a leg >to stand on. I hope that someone with some legal knowledge will comment on >this because I don't see how Apple can get away with it. Apple copyrighted the idea of "pull-down" menus about six months ago, i.e. the method of moving a on-screen pointer to the top of the screen and having the menu drop down. GEM (at least on the ST) has menus which come close to fitting this description. I was surprised to see this kind of a patent, also, but apparently Apple's lawyers made the claim quite solid, as can be seen by DEC's agreement to alter GEM without a fight. "I'm as doomed as doomed can be!" -Ed Grimley Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer ARPA: fluke!moriarty@uw-beaver.ARPA UUCP: {uw-beaver, sun, allegra, sb6, lbl-csam}!fluke!moriarty <*> DISCLAIMER: Do what you want with me, but leave my employers alone! <*>