27 Aug
2012
27 Aug
'12
2:34 p.m.
On 27 Aug 2012 at 13:25, Fred Cisin wrote:
Alas, in the current "taste and smell"
times, . . .
What did Samsung copy from Apple?
The court held that Samsung infringed on an Apple patent--a very
different matter. Who did Apple buy the patent from?
The court in the Lotus/Paperback SW suit, ruled that
having the menu
choices in the same order was infringing!!
That was the so-called "look and feel" and didn't cover internal
items such as APIs.
Intel copyrighted the mnemonics for the 8086 instruction set, but not
the 8080. So NEC used their own mnemonics and register names on the
V-series chips. It makes for a little mental juggling when reading
their literature.
Perhaps an API can be copyrighted, but it certainly wouldn't have
occurred to Kildall to do so.
--Chuck