[comp.sources.d] Patent Novelty

hunt@spar.SPAR.SLB.COM (Neil Hunt) (07/07/88)

For further enlightment about material which may be patented,
check out issued US patents #D295632 and #D295633, both by Wells-Papanek,
Verplank and Cox.

Patent number D295632: ICON FOR WASTEBASKET OR THE LIKE. May 10, 1988.
Claim: The ornamental design for an icon for wastebasket of the like,
as shown and described.

Patent number D295633: ICON FOR PC EMULATION OR THE LIKE. May 10, 1988.
Claim: The ornamental design for an icon for a PC emulation or the like,
as shown and described.

Both are assigned to the Xerox corporation. The wastebasket is barely
recognisable, it looks like a panorama of snow covered mountains perched
on top of a box ! (The PC is harder to miss -- it consists of a small box
inside a larger box representing a screen, with the letters PC written inside;
the whole thing is equipped with three knobs and sits on a third PC-shaped box.)

Neil/.
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tenney@well.UUCP (Glenn S. Tenney) (07/08/88)

In article <1613@spar.SPAR.SLB.COM> hunt@spar.UUCP (Neil Hunt) writes:
>For further enlightment about material which may be patented,
>check out issued US patents #D295632 and #D295633, both by Wells-Papanek,
>Verplank and Cox.
Please notice that these are DESIGN PATENTS and not what
most people know as patents.