Judge Vaughn Walker has dismissed three of the surviving claims in Apple Computer Inc’s suit against Microsoft Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co: Apple had originally alleged infringement in 189 elements of Windows, claiming they duplicated the look and feel of the Macintosh; the judge has now removed the remaining three Microsoft Windows features – overlapping windows, animation of windows and icon movements – from the suit and reaffirmed his earlier decision that the jury shall apply a virtual identity standard in comparing the works as a whole; a pre-trial conference has been set for June 28 in the suit.
