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To: lindend who wrote (678)	6/10/1999 10:11:00 AM
From: Arthur_Porcari	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1440

Linden, he apparently you have a patent attorney that likes to churn your account. A couple of years ago, I headed tech support for a small software company here in Houston that had proprietary software. When we investigated whether we should patent the software or just copyright it we went to one of the top intellectual property law firms in the Southwest. The senior partner who is also a professor at Southwest College of Law told us he would be happy to take our money for a patent, but he strongly recommended that we NOT patent, that we just copyright for the reasons I spoke of above. He told us that it had been commonplace for people to patent software, but that countries like Taiwan and the Philippines have gotten so good at pirating, that the trend was away from patenting software. I suspect if Microsoft is still patenting it is because they have the financial clout to fight and get a judgment against anyone who dares cross their patent. In fact Microsoft makes pretty good money by doing just that. Case in point when windows first came out. IBM may like to fight as well.