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Re: Some patent info & fuel

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From: Jacob Gore
Date: Mon, 04 Mar 1991 05:48
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/ gnu.misc.discuss / chased@rbbb.Eng.Sun.COM (David Chase) / Mar  2, 1991 /
>   c) but -- there should be some reward for being first and being
>      public about a useful discovery.

And if this useful discovery would have been discovered by somebody else
less than 17 years later, that reward should not be a patent.

And to be public about the discovery and hide the fact that a patent is
active or pending for it -- that is just plain unethical.

Jacob
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Subject: Re: Some patent info & fuel
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