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From: douglasg@hpgrla.HP.COM (@Douglas Genetten)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: copying fonts
Message-ID: <11860003@hpgrla.HP.COM>
Date: 18 Nov 88 21:59:54 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Greeley, CO
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It is, or at least has been, possible to get a typeface design patented.
Check any old ATF specimen book; they're loaded with patents.  I've heard
the design has to be preceived as noticibly different than all others---by
a layman.

Someone did a thesis here at RIT on the subject.


Doug Gennetten


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