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From: djo7613@blake.acs.washington.edu (Dick O'Connor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Quarterdeck's "patent"
Keywords: Quarterdeck, software patent, DESQview
Message-ID: <1866@blake.acs.washington.edu>
Date: 3 May 89 18:36:00 GMT
Organization: Univ of Washington, Seattle
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According to a quick blurb I saw in the April 24, 1989 issue of Information
Week, Quarterdeck has been awarded some sort of software *patent* for the
screens they developed for DESQview.  The writer quoted Charles Seybold
(Industry analyst?) as claiming that this could stand the software world
on its ear, or some such.

Any comments on what this may mean in the near term for "ownership"
of windowing displays?  Is there a better newsgroup for followups?

I apologize if you've already beaten this one to death.  I've been away...


"Moby" Dick O'Connor
Washington Department of Fisheries
Olympia, Washington  98504
Internet Mail: djo7613@blake.acs.washington.edu
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