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=== Lawsuit against San Francisco Canyon === {{Main|San Francisco Canyon Company}} In 1994, Apple filed suit against software developer [[San Francisco Canyon Company|San Francisco Canyon]] for intellectual property infringement and breach of contract.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/12/12/business/apple-lawsuit-may-renew-legal-battle-with-microsoft.html|title=Apple Lawsuit May Renew Legal Battle With Microsoft|last=Markoff|first=John|date=1994-12-12|newspaper=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|access-date=2016-04-15}}</ref> Apple alleged that San Francisco Canyon had helped develop [[Video for Windows]] using several hundred lines of unlicensed QuickTime source code. They were contracted by Intel to help make Video for Windows better use system resources on [[Intel]] processors, which was subsequently unilaterally removed.<ref name="Apple: The Inside Story"/> Microsoft and Intel were added to the lawsuit in 1995. The suit ended in a settlement in 1997.
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