Re: Patent breakthrough- maybe we don't need them after all?

From: hal@finney.org
Date: Mon Mar 13 2000 - 09:18:58 MST

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Anders Sandberg, <asa@nada.kth.se>, writes:
> > Daniel Ust writes:
> > > Speaking of that... How about patents and copyrights on bad ideas to keep
> > > them out of circulation?:) Pruning the meme tree? Sounds like an idea for
> > > science fiction farce....
>
> Chet Fleming, If We Can Keep a Severed Head Alive... (Polinym Press,
> 1988). 461 pp. Appendices; index. ISBN 0-942287-02-9; LC
> 87-90566. [$12.95. 33 Berry Oaks, St. Louis MO 63122.]

Thanks, this patent is number US4666425, visible at:
http://www.patents.ibm.com/details?pn=US04666425__.

Hal

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