ADDAMAX CORP. v. OPEN SOFTWARE FOUNDATION, INC.

Civ. A. No. 91-11152-JLT.

888 F.Supp. 274 (1995)

ADDAMAX CORPORATION, Plaintiff, v. OPEN SOFTWARE FOUNDATION, INC., Digital Equipment Corporation, and Hewlett-Packard Company, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Massachusetts.

May 19, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Samuel Adams, Ralph T. Lepore, III, Keith C. Long, Warner & Stackpole, Boston, MA, James V. O'Gara, Alan R. Kusinitz, Patricia Oveis Kahn, Kelley, Drye & Warren, New York City, for Addamax Corp.

James C. Burling, Michelle D. Miller, Charles J. Gray, Peter A. Spaeth, Hale & Dorr, Boston, MA, for Open Software Foundation, Inc.

William L. Patton, Eric Jaeger, Ropes & Gray, Boston, MA, Richard H. Alpert, Digital Equipment Corp., Maynard, MA, for Digital Equipment Corp.

Robert W. Sutis, Hewlett-Packard Co., Palo Alto, CA, Robert A. Skitol, Drinker, Biddle & Reath, Washington, DC, Brian A. Davis, Robert S. Frank, Jr., Kevin P. Light, Nicholas J. Nesgos, Choate, Hall & Stewart, Boston, MA, for Hewlett-Packard Co., Inc.

James B. Conroy, Donnelly, Conroy & Gelhaar, Boston, MA, for G2 Computer Intelligence, Inc.


MEMORANDUM

TAURO, Chief Judge.

This dispute unfolds against the backdrop of the multi-million dollar market for operating systems, the machine language programs that coordinate the activities of a computer's hardware components.1 Plaintiff Addamax Corporation, a producer of security systems for the computer industry, is suing Hewlett-Packard ("H-P"), the Digital Equipment Corporation ("Digital"), and the Open Software Foundation...

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