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To: DMaA who wrote (32668)	7/28/1999 9:07:00 AM
From: W.F.Rakecky	Respond to of 45548

Olivetti Unit Sued By 3Com Unit Over Palm Copyright San Jose, California, July 27 (Bloomberg)-- An Olivetti SpA unit was accused by 3Com's Palm Computing Inc., the world's top seller of hand-held computers, of infringing on copyrights for software used to operate the popular Palm Pilot line of small computers. In a suit filed in U.S. District Court in San Jose on July 22, Santa Clara, California-based Palm says its engineers began developing an operating system for the compact computers -- used to record addresses, take notes and perform similar functions -- in 1994, and the company holds copyrights on the software. Palm contends a U.S. unit of Ivrea, Italy-based Olivetti, Bridgewater, New Jersey-based Olivetti Office USA Inc., and an accessory supplier, CompanionLink Software Inc., of Brookings, Oregon, are wrongly marketing copies of the Palm software in their inexpensive, Chinese-made, hand-held computers. ''This is a blatant case of software piracy,'' Palm says in the suit, which asks a judge to stop Olivetti and CompanionLink from selling their daVinci software, order them to relinquish all infringing software inventories and to award damages. On Friday, a judge issued an order temporarily restraining Olivetti from copying the software or importing any product containing the software, pending an Aug. 10 hearing, said 3Com spokeswoman Barbara Woolf. Officials of Olivetti said they were investigating the allegations. CompanionLink officials could not be reached to comment. Olivetti, which reported $3.75 billion in sales for 1997, fell 0.013 euro to 2.087 in Milan. American depositary receipts of Olivetti fell 1/8 to 2 1/4 in New York. 3Com, which reported $5.77 billion in sales for fiscal 1999, rose 3/8 to 24 11/16 in New York. Jul/27/1999 19:22