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From: pvo3366@OCE.ORST.EDU (Paul O'Neill)
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Subject: Re: Token Ring Patent
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Date: 4 Jul 89 06:23:46 GMT
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Thanks for tracing these details down.  However, your conclutions are all 
wrong.

> Purporting to owning the concept of cooking with
> electrically-generated heat would seem a bit presumptuous.

No, you're presuming it to be presumptuous. :-)  It's actually the makings of a
good patent.  That's what the good ones are all about.  Nailing down a concept.

Take, for instance, Texaco's patent on the use of vacuum tubes in geophysical
prospecting.  It didn't matter *what* circuit you invented, or used.  If it
had a vacuum tube in it and you used it for geophysics, you had to get Texaco's
permission!  Great patent! 

Remember this next time you have a good idea.  Patent the concept.

Paul O'Neill                 pvo@oce.orst.edu
Coastal Imaging Lab
OSU--Oceanography
Corvallis, OR  97331         503-754-3251