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From: ebh@argon.UUCP (Ed Horch)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Hayes Microcomputer lawsuit???
Message-ID: <842@argon.UUCP>
Date: 5 Feb 91 15:31:04 GMT
References: <83693@sgi.sgi.com> <1991Feb03.184636.16688@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <1991Feb03.221512.8352@sat.uucp> <1933@blackbird.afit.af.mil>
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In article <1933@blackbird.afit.af.mil> lriggins@blackbird.afit.af.mil (L. Maurice Riggins) writes:
>In article <1991Feb03.221512.8352@sat.uucp> lmb@sat.uucp (Larry Blair) writes:
>>Larry Blair  apple!sat!lmb    lmb%sat.uucp@apple.com
>                                            ^^^^^
>Look who's talking about ridiculous patents!

(Look who doesn't know how to read email addresses!)

But I agree with those who say that patenting +++ is like 
patenting eight-bit bytes.  If I were challenging the pat-
ent in court, I'd bring in a bunch of CS students unfamiliar
with +++, describe the problem, and ask them to solve it in
front of the judge.  When they all come up with one variation
or another on that technique, it would point out that we're not
talkng intellectual property on the level of DSP programming
or ASIC design...

BTW, do the Japanese companies spend as much time and money
suing each other as ours in the U.S. do?

-Ed