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Article #1241Re: hayes lawsuit
From: Greg Hennessy
Date: Sun, 19 May 1991 20:07
Date: Sun, 19 May 1991 20:07
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Michael H. Riddle writes: #Excuse me? I thought that was the whole idea behind a patent. To reward #the inventor. Not in the United Stated at least. The purpose of a patent is to benifit society, by encouraging inventors to publish their inventions. Without patents, inventors would keep the details of what they do secret. The inventor is given a monopoly for a certain period of time to provide encouragement to release the details of their invention. -- -Greg Hennessy, University of Virginia USPS Mail: Astronomy Department, Charlottesville, VA 22903-2475 USA Internet: gsh7w@virginia.edu UUCP: ...!uunet!virginia!gsh7w
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ncar!gatech!mcnc!uvaarpa!murdoch!astsun9.astro.Virginia.EDU!gsh7w From: gsh7w@astsun9.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Hennessy) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.misc,comp.dcom.modems Subject: Re: hayes lawsuit Message-ID: <1991May19.200750.25020@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Date: 19 May 91 20:07:50 GMT References: <1991May18.154225.2699@unlinfo.unl.edu>> <TMB.91May19043527@volterra.ai.mit.edu> <1991May19.123246.6857@unlinfo.unl.edu> Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Distribution: usa Organization: University of Virginia Lines: 16