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Non-Tech : Any info about Iomega (IOM)?
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To: D.J.Smyth who wrote (29912)9/12/1997 4:42:00 PM
From: Francis Muir   of 58324
 
<< it doesn't matter how many judges Nomai bribes in France (assumption), it's not going to work with the US or GATT, Nomai will eventually need to work out a deal with IOM >>

Not so. There is no law against anyone making a disk that fits ZIP drives, so long as they are sufficiently different in the parts that are patented. There is not, nor can be, a patent for "any disk design that works with a ZIP drive."

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