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To: TigerPaw who wrote (146260)	5/18/2001 12:54:43 PM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

This Unocal patent does sound like an abuse of the spirit if not the law concerning intellectual property rights. Couldn't any competent staff of chemical engineers at any refinery have come up with this? Isn't that their job description? Management/marketing hands them the specification of the product, they figure out the temp. pressure, catalysts, etc. to generate it most efficiently - not to trivialize what these enormously skilled people do in any way. Plus, the patent must be tremendously broad. Aren't there dozens of variables that control these processes? Shouldn't you be able to tweak any of these and come up with a different and "innovative" solution? Seems Unocal could have adequately and sufficiently protected their intellectual property by keeping it proprietary.