Plain meaning rule. The plain meaning rule, also known as the literal rule, is one of three rules of statutory construction traditionally applied by English courts. The plain meaning rule dictates that statutes are to be interpreted using the ordinary meaning of the language of the statute.
HP laptops and computers are made in Palo Alto in the California state of USA. It was founded in 1939.
Story continues below. Hewlett-Packard was an early pioneer of what became the model for Silicon Valley startups: Founded in 1939 by two Stanford graduates in a Palo Alto, California, garage, HP was long celebrated for its engineering know-how and laid-back corporate culture.