From: Doug Porter <dporter@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 93 12:36:28 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: PKP
Message-ID: <93Jun13.123601pdt.13888-1@well.sf.ca.us>
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> establishing and securing a monopoly is the whole point of patent law.

Sure is; but patents are intended to convey a sharply limited monopoly. I 
seem to remember Judge Green expressing intense dissatisfaction with 
interlocking patents used to control an entire industry.

We need info from someone who knows. Mike, are you listening, and are you 
familiar with antitrust law?

Doug