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From: amos@instable.UUCP (Amos Shapir)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.sys.nsc.32k
Subject: Re: NS32532 Patents
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Date: Sun, 19-Apr-87 03:20:18 EST
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Posted: Sun Apr 19 03:20:18 1987
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Hdate: 20 Nisan 5747


Before you use the 'it has been done before' argument to flame National's
patents of the 32532, keep in mind that a specific implementation of a
combination of ideas may be patented even if each one of them has been
done before separately.
Are there any patent lawyers in the audience?
-- 
	Amos Shapir
National Semiconductor (Israel)
6 Maskit st. P.O.B. 3007, Herzlia 46104, Israel  Tel. (972)52-522261
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