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Article #115[INFO] Novel intellectual property protection
From: Dale R. Worley
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 22:16
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 22:16
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I just read something which noted that the estate of Arthur Conan Doyle figured out how to prolong its ownership of the "Sherlock Holmes" characters beyond the length of the copyright -- it *trademarked* them, which lasts forever. Dale Dale Worley Dept. of Math., MIT drw@math.mit.edu -- The only constant through history is the beaurocratic mentality. -- "Star Trek"
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Newsgroups: comp.patents Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!metro!basser.cs.su.oz.au!news From: drw@euclid.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley) Subject: [INFO] Novel intellectual property protection Organization: MIT Dept. of Tetrapilotomy, Cambridge, MA, USA Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 22:16:10 GMT Approved: patents@cs.su.oz.au Message-ID: <1992Dec14.113521.4929@cs.su.oz.au> Lines: 11 Sender: news@athena.mit.edu (News system) Nntp-Posting-Host: euclid.mit.edu X-Full-Sender-Address: @bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU:news@bloom-picayune.mit.edu