Mac clone maker Psystar has hired the Apple-beating law firm Carr & Ferrell to represent it in its battle against the Cupertino outfit.

Psystar has been making boxes that run Mac OS X 10.5 which Apple thinks should only be run on expensive machines made in its own factories. Psystar has been charged with several counts of violating copyright, trademark, breach-of-contract and unfair-competition laws by installing Mac OS X 10.5 on Intel-based computers that it has sold since April.

Carr & Ferrell have assigned Colby Springer, Christine Watson and Robert Yorio to defend Psystar. Yorio and Springer were among the lawyers who represented Burst.com in its patent-infringement case against Apple that started in 2006. In the end Apple agreed to pay Burst $10 million to license its audio- and video-streaming patents. X 

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