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To: pennyO who wrote (4359)2/4/1998 3:11:00 PM
From: John Cuthbertson  Respond to of 6570
 
"You cannot patent an idea or a standard, you can only patent an implementation!"

pennyO,
I don't think this is true. There are certainly proprietary standards, and while I'm not a lawyer, it is my understanding that they are patentable.

==John