Apple Rumors

In the late 1980s, Apple agreed to license parts of the user interface that appeared in the Lisa and Macintosh computers to Microsoft, which was then working on Windows 1.0. But as Microsoft added more features in Windows 2.0 and later in 3.0, Apple in 1988 filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Microsoft and HP (which at the time was working on an Apple-like skin for Windows called NewWave) to stop them using elements that it used in its Lisa and Macintosh platforms.

Apple lost all its claims, except those that related to the trash can icon and file folder icons in HP’s long-since abandoned NewWave. An appeal by Apple to the US Supreme Court was later denied.