Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!ukma!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!HCX.PSU.EDU!doug From: doug@HCX.PSU.EDU (Doug Hughes) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Patents Message-ID: <8910231414.AA13290@hcx.psu.edu> Date: 23 Oct 89 14:14:38 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 7 I'm not sure about copyrights. 75 seems to be the consensus.. But I'm very sure that patents last 17 years.. Why? I don't know.. seems very arbitrary to me.. *shrug* Bitnet: doug@psuhcx.bitnet Doug Hughes > Junior Computer Engineer Internet: doug@hcx.psu.edu < Penn State University UUCP: {gatech,rutgers}!psuvax1!psuhcx!doug > More commonly: doug@ecl.psu.edu <