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From: jordan@Apple.COM (Jordan Mattson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: PhoneNET receives patent
Message-ID: <39710@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 21 Mar 90 18:31:11 GMT
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Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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Dear Friend -
  You are probably thinking of some of the early BMUG articles about PhoneNet,
which were written by the folks that help found BMUG and then went on to 
found Farallon (People like Resse Jones).  They developed the idea and then
sought a patent on that.  There is nothing wrong with that.  Just because
they discussed the idea in public while they were developing and then 
realized that it was patentable.

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Apple Computer, Inc.                   CSNET:     jordan@apple.CSNET
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