Psystar Receives Extension of Time to File Opening Brief

A report reveals that Psystar, which many now regard as dead and buried, has been granted an extension of time to file its opening brief in an appeal to last year’s ruling that it had no right to install Mac OS X on generic PC hardware. The news source also offers a look at what it calls "the latest docket entry in the Psystar appeal".

The docket entry is posted as follows (courtesy of World of Apple):

“04/30/2010 14 day oral extension by phone of time to file Appellant Psystar Corporation’s opening brief is granted. Appellant’s opening brief is due May 17, 2010. Appellee Apple Inc.’s answering brief due 06/16/2010. The optional reply brief is due 14 days after service of appellee’s answering brief. [7321225] [10-15113] (AT)”

The site suggests it will soon be digging deeper into the brief, as it did in the past with every major turnaround in the seemingly never-ending Apple VS Psystar saga. The post is signed “dizzle,” assistant editor for the site. She is also the head of an Apple fangrl satire blog (idrankthekoolaid), and an Administrator and Hostess at MyAppleSpace and its vidcast MASTv. How exactly she became knowledgeable in legal matters is not certain, but earlier posts do suggest she is.

Psystar is probably best known for its legal embroilment with Apple, which began in 2008. The Miami, Florida-based company sold “Open Computers.” First announced in April 2008, these systems provided customers with the option to have Apple’s Mac OS X operating system pre-installed on them.

Psystar’s computers thus became the first commercially distributed 'hacked' Macintosh computers, or hackintoshes, as the Apple blogosphere calls them. In November 2009, a U.S. Federal District Court ruled that Psystar had violated Apple's copyrights in pre-installing generic PCs with Apple’s OS. Court documents unearthed by The Mac Observer then showed that the Mac cloner had formally appealed the court’s decision.