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From: khayo@sonia.cs.ucla.edu (Erazm J. Behr)
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Subject: Re: Apple Challenges HP New Wave (patents)
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Date: 23 Mar 88 18:02:11 GMT
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Reply-To: khayo@MATH.ucla.edu (Eric Behr)
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In article <2706@tekigm2.TEK.COM> phils@tekigm2.UUCP (Philip E Staub) writes:
 >In article <535@nunki.usc.edu> rjung@sal6.usc.edu (Robert Jung) writes:
 >>P.S. Gosh, if I had thought of this sooner, I could have copyrighted the use
 >>of a KEYBOARD, and put hundreds of people out of work waaay back in the
 >>beginning of computer-history...
 >
 >Don't laugh. As I recall, either RCA or GE has a patent on the use of CRTs
 >for display of alpahnumeric characters generated as a scanned dot matrix.
 >Sound familiar? Like in (virtually) every terminal and computer in
 >existence.

I heard somewhere that the late Stan Ulam and Edward Teller are
co-owners of a patent on "a thermonuclear explosive device"...
I wonder if they collected anything from, say, the UK :-?
                                                       Eric
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