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From: jbn@glacier.STANFORD.EDU (John B. Nagle)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Back to Intellectual Property (was: Re: Free Free Flow)
Message-ID: <17575@glacier.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 20 Jul 88 05:37:34 GMT
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Reply-To: jbn@glacier.UUCP (John B. Nagle)
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In article <4492@fluke.COM> kurt@tc.fluke.COM (Kurt Guntheroth) writes:
>WARNING!  I AM NOT A LAWYER!  USE THIS INFORMATION ONLY FOR DISCUSSION.
>YOUR MILEAGE MAY VARY.  VOID WHERE PROHIBITED.  USE UNDER ADULT SUPERVISION.
>
>    (extensive misinformation about patents, copyrights, etc.)
     
      This guy has absolutely no idea what he is talking about.  I don't
have the time to write a tutorial on the subject today, though.  So read
up on the subject.  Many books are available.

      I hold a patent on an algorithm usually implemented in software,
and researched the subject in some detail while in the process of getting
a patent, so I do have some idea of what is involved here.

					John Nagle