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WASHINGTON: "This was the canonical 'look and feel' lawsuit," says TIME's Philip Elmer-DeWitt of Tuesday's Supreme Court ruling that denied copyright protection to the "menu command" portion of Lotus' 1-2-3 spreadsheet software. Voting without Justice John Paul Stevens, who earlier excused himself for undisclosed reasons, the court on a divided 4-4 vote upheld without comment a lower court ruling that Borland did not violate copyright laws when it incorporated an almost identical menu command bar into its own Quattro spreadsheet programs because the menu is a "method of operation" which does not qualify...
Patrick S. Chung '96, associate editorial chair of the Crimson, was a public policy intern at the Lotus Development Corporation. He may be reached on-line at "pschung@fas.harvard.edu...
...LOTUS' POSITION
...announced it had acquired the Lotus Development Corp. for more than $3.5 billion as the two companies came to friendly terms less than a week after IBM made a hostile bid for the software firm. Lotus CEO Jim Manzi won guarantees that the company will retain its employee-friendly environment and a large degree of autonomy...
...looked to reassert itself in the personal-computer software market by tendering a hostile $3.3 billion bid for Lotus Development Corp. Its star asset: the popular Lotus Notes groupware program, which allows far-flung users to work simultaneously on the same document. Lotus' stock jumped more than $3 just before IBM's bid was announced, raising suspicions on Wall Street of insider trading. NOVITZ...