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To: King Prout

The Patent office is useful if you are a major American corporation with a couple dozen corporate staff attorneys specializing in property rights. Otherwise it is a kind of vanity thing.


156 posted on 08/18/2006 1:35:38 PM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
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To: RightWhale

ah.


157 posted on 08/18/2006 1:39:14 PM PDT by King Prout (many complain I am overly literal... this would not be a problem if fewer people were under-precise)
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To: RightWhale

"The Patent office is useful if you are a major American corporation with a couple dozen corporate staff attorneys specializing in property rights. Otherwise it is a kind of vanity thing."

Oh, brother. I've patented inventions to discourage havng the ideas stolen by competing companies. Vanity had nothing to do with it. It was about making money.


159 posted on 08/18/2006 1:56:27 PM PDT by Kirkwood
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