khayo@sonia.cs.ucla.edu (Erazm J. Behr) (03/24/88)
In article <2706@tekigm2.TEK.COM> phils@tekigm2.UUCP (Philip E Staub) writes: >In article <535@nunki.usc.edu> rjung@sal6.usc.edu (Robert Jung) writes: >>P.S. Gosh, if I had thought of this sooner, I could have copyrighted the use >>of a KEYBOARD, and put hundreds of people out of work waaay back in the >>beginning of computer-history... > >Don't laugh. As I recall, either RCA or GE has a patent on the use of CRTs >for display of alpahnumeric characters generated as a scanned dot matrix. >Sound familiar? Like in (virtually) every terminal and computer in >existence. I heard somewhere that the late Stan Ulam and Edward Teller are co-owners of a patent on "a thermonuclear explosive device"... I wonder if they collected anything from, say, the UK :-? Eric ___________________________________________________________ Please use khayo@MATH.ucla.edu instead of CS.ucla.edu
sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) (04/02/88)
The summary line pretty much says it all. This is one court case
I would love to watch on TV.
Sean
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