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In article <112@uw-apl.UUCP>, srg@uw-apl.UUCP (Spencer Garrett) writes:
> 
> The patent office will issue a patent on just about ANYTHING.  They seem to
> expect the courts to sort it all out.  Recently an engineer I know managed to
> get a patent for what he thought was a novel encoding technique.  This merely
> illustrates how out-of-touch both he and the patent office are.  The rest of
> us have been calling his novel approach FM0 for at least 15 years.

   Sounds familiar.   On a related point, you should know that no patent
law can prevent you, as an individual, from building and using one of
ANYTHING for your own intellectual amusement and/or enjoyment.

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