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From: jacobsd@mist.cs.orst.edu (Dana Jacobsen)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Patents and Misinformation
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Date: 1 Jul 90 06:28:23 GMT
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What sort of publications qualify as valid places to "publish"
an invention?  For a computer graphics idea such as XOR cursors,
would a group of comp.graphics postings qualify?  Or would the
patent office only accept paper publications.  I suppose this
means that the patent office's software experts should be on
the net.  At least then we could have some expert input to this
train..
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Dana Jacobsen                       Oregon State University
jacobsd@cs.orst.edu                   Computer Science
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