Outside the Washington Supreme Court building, an NBC news reporter said to the camera:
"We see that representatives of companies like Microsoft, IBM, Compaq, and Borland—as well as the representative lawyers of Micro-Innovation Company, which should have questioned Actor Corporation's alleged plagiarism just like Lotus Corporation—have appeared on the scene. They have all submitted amicus curiae briefs in support of Actor Corporation to the court."
An ABC news reporter described the scene outside the courthouse from another angle:
