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From: jim@THRUSH.STANFORD.EDU (Jim Helman)
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Subject: Re: On pedals
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Date: 31 Jul 89 19:38:34 GMT
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Were any attempts made to patent the pedal arrangements?  It seems to
me that many of them might not have fulfilled the requirement of
non-obviousness, which, I belive, is the primary cause of application
failures.

Jim Helman
Department of Applied Physics			P.O. Box 10494
Stanford University				Stanford, CA 94309
(jim@thrush.stanford.edu) 			(415) 723-4940