Re: Perhaps look-and-feel Should Be Patented :-(

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From: Steve Peltz
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1991 17:48

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In article <1991Mar19.210520.4225@Think.COM> barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) writes:
>One reason Look&Feel is currently a copyright issue rather than a patent
>issue is that it originally was used primarily to protect the Look, and not
>so much the Feel.

There's already a "design patent"; why wouldn't "Look" be properly an issue
for that, instead of Copyright?

I don't know much of anything about design patents, but an exhibit at the
Museum of Science and Industry on Patents and Copyrights had an example of
a design patent on the particular pattern of some silverware.
--
Steve Peltz
Internet: peltz@cerl.uiuc.edu	PLATO/NovaNET: peltz/s/cerl

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