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Lotus Development Corp. v. Borland International, Inc.
''Lotus Development Corporation v. Borland International, Inc.'', 516 U.S. 233 (1996), is a United States Supreme Court case that tested the extent of software copyright. This case established that copyright does not extend to the user interface of a computer program, such as the text and layout of menus.
==Background information==
Borland released a spreadsheet product, Quattro Pro, that had a compatibility mode in which its menu imitated that of Lotus 1-2-3, a competing product. None of the source code or machine code that generated the menus was copied, but the names of the commands and the organization of those commands into a hierarchy were virtually identical.
Quattro Pro also contained a feature called "Key Reader", which allowed it to execute Lotus 1-2-3 keyboard macros. In order to support this feature, Quattro Pro's code contained a copy of Lotus's menu hierarchy in which each command was represented by its first letter instead of its entire name.
Borland CEO Philippe Kahn took the case to the software development community arguing that Lotus's position would stifle innovation and damage the future of software development. The vast majority of the software development community supported Borland's position.
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