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From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Patents and Architecture
Message-ID: <3334@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>
Date: 28 Jun 90 13:44:42 GMT
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Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
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In article <63036@sgi.sgi.com>, karsh@trifolium.esd.sgi.com (Bruce Karsh) writes:
> I suspect that there are readers right now on comp.arch who will create
> software inventions, patent them and start companies to bring these inventions
> to the world.

I suspect so too.  But I also suspect that a lot of readers of comp.arch
will never be able to afford to patent their ideas or defend them.  I once
tried to get a *trademark* for a small business I wanted to start, and I
had to give up very early into   ^^^^^   the process for lack of money.
Are you telling me that it is a lot cheaper to get a patent than a trademark?

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