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From: us269574@mmm.serc.3m.com (Darryn J. Kozak)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: AT&T Claims patent on part of MIT's X11 server.
Message-ID: <1991Feb26.151319.20099@mmm.serc.3m.com>
Date: 26 Feb 91 15:13:19 GMT
References: <1991Feb25.233326.3064@odin.corp.sgi.com>
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From article <1991Feb25.233326.3064@odin.corp.sgi.com>, by jym@sgi.com (Administration Training Course):
> In article <1991Feb25.154715.9834@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov> kaleb@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley) writes:
>>Does this really surprise anyone?  After all, the LABEL file distributed 
>>with the source contains the following:
>>
>>         X Window System, Version 11
>>                  Release 4
>>
>>            contents copyrighted by
>>
>>     Massachusetts Institute of Technology
>>          Adobe Systems, Inc.
>>         Apollo Computer Inc.
>>         Apple Computer, Inc.
>>********* AT&T, Inc. **************
>>          Don Bennett
>>           Bigelow & Holmes
>>        Bitstream, Inc.
>>
>>I'm not a lawyer, but I think AT&T might have a tough time enforcing
>>this patent.
> 
> Could someone at AT&T comment on this issue?
> 
> jim t

Only if AT&T doesn't have any attorney's. A very unlikely scenario.

        Darryn Kozak

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