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From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: sci.crypt,comp.misc
Subject: Silly patents
Message-ID: <1608@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: Sat, 19-Sep-87 14:01:09 EDT
Article-I.D.: gryphon.1608
Posted: Sat Sep 19 14:01:09 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 20-Sep-87 16:04:01 EDT
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Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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Keywords: /2, Red unicycles, crosshair cursors
Xref: mnetor sci.crypt:551 comp.misc:1255

Speaking of silly patents...

Somebody (was it Vectrix) has patented XOR crosshair cursors. Now,
dont tell me people were using them them before this patent, I know
that.

They have been asking $10,000 for the "right" to use "their"
cursor.

A partial list of companies that have paid this "fee": IBM, Bell & Howell, etc.

It seems it would cost more to litigate this, than to just pay them off.

Me: "But that isn't fair"

Lawyer: "It doesn't have to be fair son, it has to be legal"

Me: " Right"
-- 
Richard J. Sexton
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