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In article <1992Nov23.011349.11673@netcom.com> rlglende@netcom.com (Robert Lewis Glendenning) writes:
>I believe that Fleming made the patent for penicillin public, which delayed
>development for many years.  No drug company wanted to invest the $
>on development and clinical testing when anybody else could ride on
>the investment and undercut their prices.  A sure route to bankruptcy.
>
>This is a system design issue.  You guys are argueing about waves,
>not wave-generation mechanisms.
>

	Of course he made the patent public.  A patent is a public
	record of an invention.  The claims describe an invention
	over which the inventor has the right to prevent anyone else
	practicing and therefore have to publicly described.
	The reason for the delay in the commercial development of
	penicillin was more likely the very mixed set of clinical
	trials.

	Alec Chambers