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In Reply to this Note From: <Geoff Lane>
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>This is insane!  Is there no longer a requirement that a patent only be
>presented for the description of a non-obvious technique or application?
>-- 
>Geoff. Lane.                                  Janet: zzassgl@uk.ac.mcc.uts
>UTS Sys Admin, Manchester Computing Centre, Oxford Rd, Manchester, M13 9PL
>

The requirement still exists.  However, there exists numerous
testimony on this list, and possibly elsewhere, by computer
professionals that many of the patents granted by the Patent Office
are obvious to them.  This has led to some speculation of the lack of
techical expertise by the employees of the Patent Office, which have
been denied by some supporters of the patent system.  -David-

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