Re: Fear and Loathing at the Patent Office

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From: Andrew Hume
Date: Tue, 05 Mar 1991 03:40

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	thanks to jeffrey for injecting some facts into this thread.
I am last in line to be an authority on the patent but my reading is
that backing store has little if anything to do with it. As jeff points out,
claim 12 is the most powerful one - it basically covers multiple independent
concurrently updatable windows. To my knowledge, this was new and innovative at
the time. sure, systems had obscured windows etc but as far as i know, none
of them were updated when they were obscured (they updated when brought to front).
perhaps people could comment on this more important claim rather than the
backing store herring

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From: andrew@alice.att.com (Andrew Hume)
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Subject: Re: Fear and Loathing at the Patent Office
Summary: thanks to jeffrey
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Date: 5 Mar 91 03:40:14 GMT
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