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From: karl@osu-eddie.UUCP
Newsgroups: misc.legal,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Copyrighting trivial code
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Date: Wed, 18-Feb-87 07:16:10 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 18 07:16:10 1987
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In-reply-to: mark@mimsy.UUCP's message of 17 Feb 87 19:57:42 GMT
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mark@mimsy.UUCP writes:

  >Well, my reading of this patent makes it pretty suspect.  It in fact
  >seems to patent any sort of thing which pops up on the screen when something
  >is pressed.

In the words of Robert A. Heinlein in _The_Door_Into_Summer_...
	"You claim the world and then wait for someone else to chip
	 away at it.  That's what patent lawyers are born for."
:-)
-- 
Karl