Re: update on look and feel cases

The recent Lotus case is quite troubling if it would extend to macro conversion programs that would execute the Lotus macros using QP commands. This would suggest that other types of conversion programs might also be infringing - those programs that convert WordPerfect files to MS Word files or would permit users of excel to use spreadsheets generated in Lotus. And, of course, there a many programs that translate programs from one computer language to another.

I'm not saying that this recent case holds that such conversions are infringement. But it is not clear to me that Borland can't argue that this is close to what they are doing.

I'm prejudiced because I thought the earlier look and feel case was incorrectly decided.

--Don Berman Received on Thu Sep 16 1993 - 23:35:41 GMT