Apple patents pull-down menus

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Subject: Apple patents pull-down menus
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From: Christopher A Kent
Without further comment.

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Date: 31 August 1984 10:46-EDT
From: Steven T. Kirsch
Subject: Apple gets patent on pull-down menus
To: info-ibmpc @ USC-ISIB

US Patent 4,464,652 granted to Apple Computer patents the use
of a menu bar and sub-menus in conjunction with a mouse using
"pull-down" style.

I expect these patent claims will be challenged by Microsoft and IBM
since Xerox Star had a pull-down menu in 1980 (the only difference
here is that Star only had a single "icon" in its "menu bar").

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