at the temporal coordinates: 12/21/01 10:18 AM, the entity known as THX 1138
at onefishtwofish_at_mac.com conveyed the following:
>
> On 12/21/01, Michael J. Hu=DFmann quoth:
>>
>>> used on Palm handheld devices infringed a patent Xerox received in 1997=
> =2E
>>
>> Didn't Graffiti for the Newton exist prior to 1997?
>
> Well, yeah, my boxed copy has a date of 1994 on it. Prior art
> anyone? Unless the patent has to do with Graffiti being bundled with
> the system, and intertwined with the hardware. When did the first
> Palm Pilot come out?
It would be pretty astonishing if info like that never came out in court.
- Eric.
--Eric Strobel (fyzycyst_at_NOSPAM^mailaps.org)
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