Z:gnu-www-ja-software-patents--5bcd85-This is not just theoretical./en

This is not just theoretical. Around 1990, a programmer named Paul Heckel sued Apple claiming that Hypercard infringed a couple of his patents. When he first saw Hypercard, he didn't think it had anything to do with his patent, with his &ldquo;Inventions&rdquo;. It didn't look similar. When his lawyer told him that you could read the patents as covering part of Hypercard, he decided to attack Apple.