I'm no Lawyer, but I do think that the "man in the street" has it over the lawyer in one respect. He or she has not had to study law and therefore some things are still "Common Sense" to him or her. What I hope to do in this "article" is demonstrate how fancy lawyers now claim to own the rights to some things that they patently (sic) do not own the rights to.

Firstly, The Open Group, a San Francisco company that claims ownership of the Unix trademark, is suing Apple Computer. They have