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From: rickk@hpvcla.UUCP
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Subject: Re: patents -- (disclosure)
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Date: Fri, 25-Sep-87 18:34:17 EDT
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If you can't patent an algorithm, then what was the article on the wall of the
WSU EE office about someone (I don't remember his name) having just patented
an algorithm which would replace the fast Fourier transform????

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