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  1. Newsgroups: comp.patents
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!metro!basser.cs.su.oz.au!news
  3. From: drw@euclid.mit.edu (Dale R. Worley)
  4. Subject: [INFO] Novel intellectual property protection
  5. Organization: MIT Dept. of Tetrapilotomy, Cambridge, MA, USA
  6. Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 22:16:10 GMT
  7. Approved: patents@cs.su.oz.au
  8. Message-ID: <1992Dec14.113521.4929@cs.su.oz.au>
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  13.  
  14. I just read something which noted that the estate of Arthur Conan
  15. Doyle figured out how to prolong its ownership of the "Sherlock
  16. Holmes" characters beyond the length of the copyright -- it
  17. *trademarked* them, which lasts forever.
  18.  
  19. Dale
  20.  
  21. Dale Worley        Dept. of Math., MIT        drw@math.mit.edu
  22. --
  23. The only constant through history is the beaurocratic mentality.
  24. -- "Star Trek"
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