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From: dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave P. Schaumann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: AT&T using patent to go after people using X
Message-ID: <943@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>
Date: 24 Feb 91 20:00:46 GMT
References: <1748@pdxgate.UUCP> <1991Feb24.135201.9052@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1991Feb24.175524.20105@coplex.uucp>
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In article <1991Feb24.175524.20105@coplex.uucp> dean@coplex.uucp (Dean Brooks) writes:
>Well hell, lets get a bunch of us together and patent the art of
>walking.  Its about as abstract as the backing store concept. 
>Then we can millions sueing every pedistrian in the world...

No way.  I thought of it first.  I've got dibs.

>BTW, does anyone think that AT&T can make a viable claim off this?

Probably depends on how much they want to pay their lawyers, how much negative
publicity they want to endure, and how determined the opposition is.  Surely
there are a lot of windowing systems out there that use this concept, and
AT&T would annoy *a lot* of people if they pursued this suit.

>dean@coplex.UUCP   Dean A. Brooks

;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-)
BTW, I've just discovered no-one has patented the return key or the space
bar, so I've done it myself.  Anyone who doesn't want to get sued should
contact me for liscencing agreements, or desist using them immediately...
;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-)

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