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Artifex Lawsuit Against Palm Pre

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“rtifex is the developer and copyright owner of muPDF, a
high-performance PDF rendering engine. Artifex is well-known as the
developer of the Ghostscript family of interpreters. muPDF is
Artifex’s lightweight PDF interpreter targeted at the PDA and ebook
markets. Palm improperly integrated muPDF in the Palm Pre’s “PDF
viewer” application without Artifex’s authorization. Palm’s
unauthorized copying of Artifex’s copyrighted muPDF is widespread,
as Palm has included “PDF viewer” in every Palm Pre unit shipped
since the product’s launch in June 2009.”

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