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At 10:39 AM 1/23/98 -0500, you wrote: > >I think you miss the point in the US PTO. It is not to be "social" >about trade secrets, but rather to protect intellectual property that is >otherwise too easy to copy. In the case of software, copyright will do >just fine. I don't understand Richard's point. But the purpose of Patents is both to provide protection to the inventor's economic interests while at the same time making the information freely available (social benifit). After 21 years (I believe) anyone is free to use it as well. Rick Collins Rick Collins Email: redsp@writeme.com re:DSP, A Signal Processing Solutions Company P.O. Box 1253 Warrenton, VA 20188-1253 540-349-9606 Web Page: http://www.angelfire.com/biz/redsp/