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== Factual Background == On March 17, 1988, Apple Computer, Inc. filed suit in the federal district court in San Jose against Microsoft Corporation and Hewlett-Packard Company. Apple claimed that version 2.03 of Microsoft's Window's [[operating system|operating environment computer software]] and H-P's New Wave desktop computer [[software]] which operates with Windows, both [[copyright infringement|infringed]] the [[audiovisual]] [[copyright]]s in Apple's Macintosh [[visual display]]s and images. Since its introduction in the Apple Lisa [[personal computer]] in 1983, the Macintosh "desktop metaphor" had become a hallmark of Apple's approach to [[personal computer]]s. The desktop metaphor embodied in the Macintosh [[personal computer]] built on the work originally developed by Xerox in its "Xerox Star" [[personal computer]]. Xerox never successfully marketed the Star, and Xerox had exited the [[hardware]] side of the [[personal computer]] marketplace. Apple had been quite successful with the Macintosh. It has also been successful in having the [[Copyright Office]] register the Macintosh desktop and [[application software]] [[visual display]]s as [[audiovisual work]]s and the Macintosh [[program code]] as [[literary work]]s. The [[registration certificate]]s attached to the complaint showed that Apple attempted to register all aspects of [[authorship]] embodied in the Macintosh [[computer program]]s including their [[audiovisual display]]s. Apple's case against Microsoft and HP claimed [[copyright infringement|infringement]] of its [[graphic user interface]].
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