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From: jpn@teddy.UUCP (John P. Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Phil Katz (PKARC author) sued by SEA (ARC author)
Keywords: katz,sea,pkarc,pkxarc,arc,suit
Message-ID: <4865@teddy.UUCP>
Date: 21 Jun 88 15:08:21 GMT
References: <8084@brl-smoke.ARPA> <1755@looking.UUCP> <911@pilchuck.Data-IO.COM>
Reply-To: jpn@teddy.UUCP (John P. Nelson)
Organization: GenRad, Inc., Concord, Mass.
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>Next you'll be telling us that Disneyland should sue Computerland and
>Computerland should sue Businessland (which incidentally happened, and the
>judge laughed Computerland out of court).

You left out the most interesting part of this anecdote.  Several years
earlier, a company called "Radio Shack" sued "Computer Shack" and WON:
Computer Shack had to change it's name to (you guessed it) COMPUTERLAND!
Given Computerland's previous experience with the courts, they had every
reason to assume that they would win their suit!

It just goes to prove that there is no logic in the courts:  There is
NO WAY to know the result of any particular suit until it actually goes
to court!

-- 
     john nelson

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