Apple fought Franklin in court for about five years to get its clones off the market .
Was ultimately successful when a court ruled that software stored in ROM was in fact copyrightable in the U.S. ( See Apple Computer , Inc. v. Franklin Computer Corp . )
Apple fought Franklin in court for about five years to get its clones off the market , and was ultimately successful when a court ruled that software stored in ROM was in fact copyrightable in the U.S. ( See Apple Computer , Inc. v. Franklin Computer Corp . )