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updated README for patent archives

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From: Leonard H. Tower Jr.
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1991 03:32
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You might post this to comp.org.usenix as well.  USENIX has been
educating its memebers about patents.

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**********************************************************************
     This is the file README available by anonymous ftp from
          jupiter.ee.pitt.edu (130.49.15.1) /pub/patent
**********************************************************************

This directory (/pub/patent) contains the following files

README			- this file

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Items relating to the US Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) 
Request for Comments (RFC)

SW-patent-RFC	    - the USPTO request for comments
SW-patent-errata    - correction to a typo in RFC
SW-patent-response  - original news posting from Dan Bernstein
SW-Patent-mail.tex  - a sample letter (latex format) to send to USPTO (if you 
		      don't want to write one yourself, this is 
                      Dan Bernstein's sample letter)

LPF-USPTO-info      - information on how/why to send to the USPTO
		      from the League for Programming Freedom
		      (includes address and FAX number of USPTO)

LPF-USPTO.tex       - the League for Programming Freedom's lettter
                      to the USPTO

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Other items relating to intellectual property/patent issues

lzw-patent.Z	     - the 'compress patent' (compressed of course)
backing-store-letter - the letter AT&T supposedly sent to X Consortium 
                       members
byte_ordering_info   - information on the patent for byte ordering
		      (from the LPF)
patent-list          - list of software/algorithm/intellectual property
                       patents
quotes               - various quotable sources regarding patent issues
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