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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Software Patents (Was: Re: Reserve engineering stuff,.....)
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Date: 29 Jun 90 19:24:14 GMT
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In article <42490@apple.Apple.COM> north@Apple.COM (Don North) writes:
>
>Here's a short list of some of Apple's H/W and S/W related patents:
>
>4,910,670, Mar 20, 1990, Sound Generation and Disk Speed Control Apparatus
>                         for use with Computer Systems (original Mac sound)

Er, the title looks right, but the date looks wrong-- what happened to the
Apple Sound Chip, which should have been patented about this time.  And
why wasn't this patent done earlier?


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