Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mtndew!friedl
From: friedl@mtndew.UUCP (Steve Friedl)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Chelgraph patent on compression...
Message-ID: <368@mtndew.UUCP>
Date: 1 Mar 90 20:20:47 GMT
References: <8167@lindy.Stanford.EDU> <120@xchelsys.chelgraph.CO.UK> <10100@leadsv.UUCP>
Organization: Steve's Barnburner 386
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In article <120@xchelsys.chelgraph.CO.UK> bill@xchelsys.UUCP (bill davy)
writes:
> Chelgraph has a patent on compression to/from disc for bitmap output
> devices.
 
In article <10100@leadsv.UUCP>, cberg@leadsv.UUCP (Charles R Berg) writes:
> Would you care to elaborate on this?  I mean, without revealing your
> proprietary technology, what exactly have you patented?

Generally speaking, aren't "patents" and "proprietary technology"
mutually exclusive?

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