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From: jchapman@watcgl.UUCP (john chapman)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: patent office closure
Message-ID: <1926@watcgl.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 29-May-85 10:07:13 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 29 10:07:13 1985
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 Can anyone suggest a good (or even mediocre) reason why the feds
 would want to shut down the canadian patent office?  According to
 the Toronto Star it employs about 200 people and actually produces
 net revenues on the order of $3,000,000.00 .  This is not some sort
 of privatization that the PCs are so fond of since they say that
 people will have to use the US patent office.  So here we have a
 government which claims it is trying to reduce the deficit and produce
 jobs, jobs,jobs... and it is putting two hundred people on UIC and
 throwing away 3 million in revenues. This doesn't even make good
 business sense; it seems to me that they ought to be made to take
 a little heat over this.