From:	CRDGW2::CRDGW2::MRGATE::"SMTP::CRVAX.SRI.COM::RELAY-INFO-VAX" 12-OCT-1989 22:49
To:	MRGATE::"ARISIA::EVERHART"
Subj:	Re: Patent-Infringement of the WATCH Program on CLYDE's Technology

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Date:     Thu, 12 Oct 89 18:58:50 PDT
From: adelman@TGV.COM (Kenneth Adelman)
Reply-To: Adelman@TGV.COM (Kenneth Adelman)
Message-Id: <891012185845.20200063@TGV.COM>
Subject:  Re: Patent-Infringement of the WATCH Program on CLYDE's Technology
To: tnieland@aamrl.af.mil
Cc: info-vax@sri.com

	Do you have a copy of the patent or patent number?  Remember
you can't patent code, only the idea; you copyright code.  The
question that a patent court is going to look at was did they invent
the idea of watching terminals (surely not), or the technology to do
it (surely DEC invented the port/class interface!).

	I hope you can encourange DECUS to stand up to the rights of
all of its members on this one.

							Kenneth Adelman
							TGV, Incorporated

PS: Does that mean I'm up for trademark infringement on my DECnet node
    CONTRL (aka CONTROL.TGV.COM, a cluster member with KAOS.TGV.COM)?