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From: ark@alice.UucP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: Cheap copies of brand-name perfumes
Message-ID: <4771@alice.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 3-Jan-86 23:11:51 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan  3 23:11:51 1986
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> The makers get the formulas from a
> publication (I can't remember the name).  Anyone can make
> the stuff, given the right ingredients.  What the makers
> can't do is package it just like the original.  That's fraud.

What about the patent laws?  Don't they stop people from making
copies of perfume formulas?  Or aren't they patented?