Re: Patent on a standard-byte order for intermachine communication

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From: Charlie Geyer
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1991 04:55

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In article <3031@mccuts.uts.mcc.ac.uk> zzassgl@uts.mcc.ac.uk (Geoff Lane)
writes:

> 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?

That would be unamerican.

   What's good for General Motors is good for America.

                             -- Charles Wilson (a former CEO of General
                                Motors who was Secretary of Defense in
                                the Eisenhower Administration)

   And that goes for Apple, Lotus, ... :-(

-- 
Charles Geyer                visiting Seattle
Department of Statistics     Department of Statistics
University of Chicago        University of Washington
geyer@galton.uchicago.edu    geyer@stat.washington.edu

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From: charlie@ernie.stat.washington.edu (Charlie Geyer)
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