Re: A suggestion....(patents)

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From: David Chase
Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1992 01:39

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jbuck@forney.berkeley.edu (Joe Buck) writes:
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>The clock is ticking if this strategy is to be applied: to patent
>something that gcc2 uses, the application must occur within one year
>of gcc2's publication.

Unless the (international) patent law has changed recently, it's too
late already.  The US has a one year grace period, but many other
countries do not.  (But you mentioned a GATT treaty -- is a uniform
grace period part of the changes?)

David Chase
Sun

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