Legal Opinion
Apple Computer, Inc. v. Microsoft Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided September 19, 1994No. 93-16867, 93-16869 and 93-16883PublishedCited by 175 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RYMER, Circuit Judge:
Lisa and Macintosh are Apple computers. Each has a graphical user interface (“GUI”) which Apple Computer, Inc. registered for copyright as an audiovisual work. Both GUIs were developed as a user-friendly way for ordinary mortals to communicate with the Apple computer; the Lisa Desktop and the Macintosh Finder 1 are based on a desktop metaphor with windows, icons and pull-down menus which can be manipulated on the screen with a hand-held device called a mouse. When Microsoft Corporation released Windows 1.0, having a similar GUI, Apple complained. As a result, the two…
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