Data General Corp. v. Digital Computer Controls, Inc.

MARVEL, Vice Chancellor:

Plaintiff and defendant compete in the business of designing, manufacturing and marketing compact digital computers, commonly known as minicomputers, one of a family of electrically activated mechanical counting devices, the functions of which are based on the principles of binary algebra, the ancient art of computing by machine having been vastly speeded up and made more elaborate and sophisticated through the application and regulation of electrical impulses. Minicomputers appear to have become increasingly popular since their introduction some ten years ago by…