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From: rampil@cca.ucsf.edu (Ira Rampil)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Jonathan (Apple patents)
Summary: Confirm Patent on ROM Algorithms
Message-ID: <1833@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu>
Date: 14 Apr 89 03:40:43 GMT
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Reply-To: rampil@cca.ucsf.edu.UUCP (Ira Rampil)
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Yes Matilda, there are patents.  I know, I saw one.
It was a patent issued to Bill Atkinson representing Apple.
The patent covered a new algorithm for handling arbitrary
rasterized regions.
Hypothesis:  Anyone wanting to legally rip off the ROMs should
find another way to handle the patented algorithms--Good Luck.

Ira Rampil
Department of Anesthesia
UCSF

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