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From: doug@letni.lonestar.org (Doug Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Hayes Microcomputer lawsuit???
Message-ID: <1991Feb1.205933.29207@letni.lonestar.org>
Date: 1 Feb 91 20:59:33 GMT
References: <1510@public.BTR.COM> <3759.27a62207@hayes.uucp>
Followup-To: gnu.misc.discuss
Organization: Logic Process Unix Engineering, Dallas Office
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In article <3759.27a62207@hayes.uucp> tnixon@hayes.uucp writes:
>One such patent is the Heatherington '302 patent, "Modem with Improved
>Escape Sequence", which relates to the guard time associated with the
>"+++" escape sequence used to change the modem from online to command 
>state.

Ho boy, a "look and feel" lawsuit over a user interface, geez, and
hayes won the first round too. What this shows is how desperate or
silly we are getting.



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