source file: m1528.txt
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 10:29:33 -0500

Subject: Re: patents

From: Gary Morrison <mr88cet@texas.net>

> >lot of people don't realize that patent law not only prohibits you from
> >patenting things that have not (sic) been patented before, but things
> >that are known in any way.

   (Wild:  I must have read that sentence 6 or 7 times and it seem to be
correct.)

   Yes, I did indeed intended to say that "patent law not only prohibits you
from patenting the previously patented, but that which is previously known in
any way."