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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix
Subject: Re: Comments on patent process
Summary: important correction
Message-ID: <4438.Jun2304.04.1891@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 23 Jun 91 04:04:18 GMT
References: <15007@ulysses.att.com> <1991Jun20.105925.5054@nss1.com>
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In article <1991Jun20.105925.5054@nss1.com> mrm@nss1.com (Michael R. Miller) writes:
>                          56 FR 22702-02
>                              NOTICES
>                      DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
>                    Patent and Trademark Office
  [ ... ]
>  ADDRESSES: Submit written comments to E.R. Kazenske, Executive
> Assistant to the Commissioner, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office,
> Box 15, Washington, DC 20231.
  [ ... ]
>   (g) Are the tests of patentability for computer program-related
> inventions implemented by the USPTO in the notice published in the
> Official Gazette on August 9, 1989, consistent with the patent
> statute and/or court decisions If there are inconsistencies, what
> are they

There was no Official Gazette on August 9, 1989. According to Kazenske's
secretary, the date should be September 5, 1989.

Please transmit this notice with all copies of 56 FR 22702-02.

---Dan