Beyond the laser printer technology that is synonymous with Xerox, there is a whole number of patents associated with the brand that we use in our daily lives – whether we know it or not. Now, Xerox is accusing Facebook, Twitter, ByteDance and other social media giants of patent infringement.
For some background, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (or PARC) was launched in 1970 as a developmental arm of Xerox Corporation. PARC team, which consisted of many top computer scientists, played a crucial role in developing the technologies that changed everything. This includes the graphical user interface (GUI) used in the Xerox 8010 Star Information System in 1981 and the Apple Lisa. read the rest here