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Re: Patenable v. Unpatentable (2)

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From: Graham Toal gtoal
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1992 07:11
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In article <4586@cluster.cs.su.oz.au> 0001811496@mcimail.com (Carl Oppedahl) writes:
>In contrast, if the idea is covered by the patent claim (i.e. the idea 
>is novel and unobvious), then the patent owner _will_ be able to stop 
>the person who appropriates the idea.

The trouble with this whole shebang is that one man's 'unobvious' is
another man's 'trivial', and is reinvented daily, and taken for granted,
without ever having hear of the patent or the 'original' inventor.

G
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From: gtoal@robobar.co.uk (Graham Toal "gtoal@vangogh.cs.berkeley.edu")
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Subject: Re: Patenable v. Unpatentable (2)
Summary: [for man also read woman]
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