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From: jbn@glacier.STANFORD.EDU (John B. Nagle)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Software Patents Talk...
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Date: 29 Jan 89 04:19:30 GMT
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Reply-To: jbn@glacier.UUCP (John B. Nagle)
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     The conventional wisdom is that software patents are either impossible
to get or useless.  The conventional wisdom is wrong.  I hold U.S. Patent
#4,740,904, and it has been very valuable to me.

     It's a shame that the talk is on the other coast.


					John Nagle