The case, filed in London High Court and seeking penalties and injunctions against Apple Computer, would openthe latest chapter in a long and winding road of litigation between the two sides that dates back to Apple Computer's founding.
At first, she had found it necessary to go to the door and open it and stand there, surveying the piles of paper, the moribund computer, the overflowing files, the books lying open or face down, as well as crowded on the shelves.
There was, however, an even bigger conceptual breakthrough: the mobile device as general purpose computer, open to the world of software, powered by the resources of the cloud.