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- From: dave@prc.unisys.com (David Lee Matuszek)
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- Subject: Re: Patents: What they are. What they aren't. Other factors.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.194537.15125@gvl.unisys.com>
- Date: 12 Nov 92 19:45:37 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov8.064806.27926@udel.edu> berryh@huey.udel.edu (John Berryhill, Ph.D.) writes:
- >
- >First off, you make it sound as if it costs a fortune to obtain
- >a patent. That is simply not true. Even pricey patent law firms
- >would charge you somewhere from a couple of grand to somewhere in the
- >mid to high teens. If that is a lot of money, then the invention
- >must not be worth all that much in the first place.
-
- That's not a lot of money?
- Boy, am I in the wrong newsgroup!!!
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