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From: srctran@world.std.com (Gregory Aharonian)
Subject: [INFO]  Patents awarded by country
Organization: Basser Dept of Computer Science, University of Sydney, Australia
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 01:17:27 GMT

 
    What follows are statistics on US patents awarded to foreign countries
during the time period of 1963 to 1986.  Only countries with more than 1000
patents are listed. Not surprisingly, Japan and West Germany have the 
largest number of foreign patents, with totals comparable to the two U.S.
states receiving the most U.S. patents.
 
Gregory Aharonian
Source Translation & Optimization
 
 
			PATENTS BY COUNTRY, 1963-1986
 
		United States			1,047,901
 
		Japan				  131,461
		West Germany			  121,917
 
		California			  136,027
		New York			  106,303
 
		England				   62,387
		France				   46,049
		Switzerland			   27,405
		Canada				   26,101
		Sweden				   17,119
		Italy				   16,045
		Netherlands			   14,563
 
		Soviet Union			    6,036
		Belgium				    5,611
		Austria				    5,510
		Australia			    5,094
		Denmark				    3,286
		Finland				    2,148
		Israel				    2,070
		Czechoslovakia			    1,847
		Norway				    1,804
		South Africa			    1,638
		Spain				    1,562
		Hungary				    1,469
		Mexico				    1,254
		Taiwan				      950

Newsgroups: comp.patents
From: Dik.Winter@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter)
Subject: Re: [INFO] Air Force files patent in 19 countries
Organization: CWI, Amsterdam
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 11:45:16 GMT


In article <1992Aug16.221400.13897@cs.su.oz.au> srctran@world.std.com (Gregory Aharonian) writes:
 >      Of interest is the countries in which the Air Force has filed the
 > patent.  They are:   Australia, Brazil, Canada, Switzerland, Czeckoslovakia,
 > Germany, Denmark, Spain, Finland, United Kingdom, Japan, South Korea,
 > Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden and Russia.
 > 
More interesting is that they did *not* file in exactly one half of the
European Community Countries (Belgium, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy,
Portugal).
-- 
dik t. winter, cwi, kruislaan 413, 1098 sj  amsterdam, nederland
home: bovenover 215, 1025 jn  amsterdam, nederland
dik@cwi.nl

Newsgroups: comp.patents
From: Hans Ridder <ridder@zso.dec.com>
Subject: Re: [INFO] expiring patents
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation - DECwest Engineering
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 16:30:00 GMT
Originator: ridder@zowie.zso.dec.com

In article <1992Aug19.224908.11164@cs.su.oz.au> Carl Oppedahl <0001811496@mcimail.com> writes:
>Gregory Aharonian (srctran@world.std.com) writes:
>>I haven't looked closely, but I suspect many of these
>>were due to small businesses and individuals not having the money to
>>maintain their patents, for one commercial reason or another.
> 
>No, that's not quite right.  By definition if the patent happens to have
>worked out well (i.e. is making lots of money for the owner) then the owner
>_does_ have the money to maintain it, and indeed has no difficulty
>deciding to spend a small portion of the money on the maintenance fee.
>This is so regardless of the owner happening to be an individual or
>small business.  On the other hand, if the owner has not paid the
>maintenance fee due to lack of money, then by definition the patent
>must not have worked out well (i.e. has not made money for the owner).

This simple logic ignores the possibility that the patent owner could
have made *lots* of money on the patent in question, but lost his shirt
on other business ventures.  Of course you could argue that forgetting
to "feed his golden goose" was bad business, and I would agree, but it
wouldn't be the first time that a business took a gamble and lost.  Not
paying renewal fees doesn't necessarily mean the patent in question
wasn't a money maker.  There could be (*are*) other factors at work.

>On behalf of clients I regularly monitor patents owned by particular
>large companies, and every week I see some patents owned by large
>companies (who have lots and lots of money) expiring due to failure to
>pay maintenance fees.  Obviously for them the decision not to pay the
>fee was not lots of money, but rather a simple business decision.

Or they could just be too disorganized!

All of your conclusions are based on the assumption that businesses
*always* act rationally, don't take risks, are *completely* under
control, and *always* pay attention!  In my experience, this just isn't
so.

-hans
-- 
  Hans-Gabriel Ridder				Digital DECwest Engineering
  ridder@rust.zso.dec.com			Bellevue, Washington, USA
  {pacbell,pyramid,uunet}!rust.zso.dec.com!ridder

Newsgroups: comp.patents
From: William Humphries <humphrie@ssc.wisc.edu>
Subject: [REQUEST] Patents in the Drugs industury
Organization: Basser Dept of Computer Science, University of Sydney, Australia
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 17:53:53 GMT


And now a request for you to post to the group.

I am studying patent litigation the drug industry, and need data on the
number of patents granted either in the aggregate or by firm for the class
424* (drugs). I have numbers for 1970 to the present, but neither the 
CD ROM from the patent office, nor LEXIS has information on approvals
prior to 1970.

If anyone has these figures, and would be willing to share them with me,
I'd appreciate it.

I'm a graduate student who does not have the funds to purchase such data. I
can give you credit for your help in any journal publication which my work
leads to, but that's it.

Bill Humphries
Graduate Student
Department of Economics, UW Madison
humphrie@ssc.wisc.edu
608-262-4543

Newsgroups: comp.patents
From: srctran@world.std.com (Gregory Aharonian)
Subject: [INFO] Articles on genetic patents
Organization: Basser Dept of Computer Science, University of Sydney, Australia
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 23:29:52 GMT

   The August 14, 1992 issue of Science magazine contains three good
articles on the issue of patents and gene sequences.  A while ago the
NIH applied for patents on 2750 partial complementary DNA sequences,
causing great concern in the biotech and patent communities.

   The articles are:  "Genes, Patents and Product Development" by Rebecca
Eisenberg (professor of law at the University of Michigan", "Genome
Research: Fulfilling the Public's Expectations for Knowledge and
COmmercialization" by Reid Adler (director of the office of technology
transfer at the NIH), and "Patents on Random Complementary DNA Fragments"
by Thomas Kiley (attorney and director for biotech companies).

   The articles are well written with lots of legal references.  Well
worth taking a look at.

Greg Aharonian
Source Translation & Optimization
From: gt0449a@prism.gatech.EDU (Rob Coleman)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Extra columns
Date: 31 Aug 92 00:17:47 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

I am currently using a 132x30 font in Linux (a Unix clone), and have
become quite used to having the larger screen (in both dimensions).  I
would like to continue to have the 132 columns available for directory
listings and such, but I would prefer to be in 80 column mode when I
post using vi.  Is there a setting (as there is for rows) that would
cause vi to ignore the extra columns when it is being used, and create
more readable articles for people with only 80 columns?  Of course, I
could make an alias "stty columns 80; vi $1; stty columns 132", but that
seems kinda cheesy.  Any suggestions?
Please email me, as I don't ordinarily read this group (too much
volume!!)
Thanks!
-- 
Rob Coleman ][ gt0449a@prism.gatech.edu        ][  "I think I'm going bald!"
Comp. Sci.  ][ Georgia Institute of Technology ][        -Rush/COS
From: bevan@cs.man.ac.uk (Stephen J Bevan)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: sam (was Re: Why I love VI)
Date: 27 Aug 92 19:26:55 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester
In-reply-to: pete@minster.york.ac.uk's message of 26 Aug 92 11:36:30 GMT

In article <714828990.22356@minster.york.ac.uk> pete@minster.york.ac.uk writes:
   An excellent text editor indeed -- sam concentrates on _getting the job
   done_ rather than piddling about with customisation and fancy/useless
   macros.

However isn't the "job" here defined as "writing C or *roff"?
For example, sam will nicely match {} pairs which is great for C, but
is completely useless if you're writing in a language that doesn't use
single character block delimiters e.g. Ada, Pascal, Algol 60, TeX ...
etc. 

   -- regular expressions across multiple files? No problem!

Sounds like editor bloat to me :-)
Seriously, something that bugs me about sam is that it duplicates some
of mux's functions to allow it to be a multi-file editor.  By all
means allow the editor to edit more than one file at a time, but if
you have a window system that is as fast as 8 1/2, why not have
window per file.  Also, the buffer list is just a poor man's
directory, why not use the directory directly?
This is reasonably simple if you use a decent language to control
your applications but it seems that developers either shy completely
away from using a language (Pike - sam, Joy - vi) or use one but
through a combination of things, screw it up.  For example, GNU Emacs
uses Lisp but embeds it in the editor instead of keeping it separate*.
XEDIT keeps its language separate but the language is REXX!  I don't
want to start a flame war about REXX as I realise that lots of people 
think REXX is an excellent language.  It just isn't what I want in a
language, I'd much prefer to use a system based around Scheme or
FORTH.  As I refuse to "waste" my time writing YAE I'll just carry on
using GNU Emacs and suffer the bloat :-< 

bevan

* This works fine if you're working on a LispM where the whole system
  is Lisp based but it doesn't fit into the UNIX way of things.
Newsgroups: comp.editors
From: olsonkk@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (OLSON KIRK)
Subject: Is there a spellchecker for VI?
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 03:42:10 GMT

Hi all... I was wondering if anyone knew if a spellchecker for VI exists
and or is available?  Has anyone ever heard of such a thing?

Thanks!

Kirk
-- 
Kirk Olson

olsonkk@ucsu.colorado.edu
olsonkir@luther.uni.edu
Newsgroups: comp.editors
From: cb@wixer.cactus.org (Cyberspace Buddha)
Subject: Re: A Sub-512K Word Processor, Anyone?
Organization: Real/Time Communications
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 19:20:13 GMT

> A friend of mine has an AMSTRAD 1512 PC with no expansion boards.
> 
> Can anyone recommend a Word Processor that will run on the system
> (512K) and still have enough RAM left to cope with documents up to
> 30 pages in length?

hmmmm...  80 columns x 66 lines x 30 pages = ~155k
I'd guess that Qedit <~45k> will do the trick, unless there's
something truly funky about the Amstrad...


Newsgroups: comp.editors
From: wolff@inf.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Wolff)
Subject: Re: Editor mined (Unix, VMS, MSDOS) available by ftp
Organization: Free University of Berlin, Germany
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 12:37:01 GMT

After first problems with corrupted archive files (during ca. 1 day after 
submission) and another problem with zip files being not completely 
interchangeable between Unix zip and MSDOS zip, the ftp server situation 
of mined is now as follows:

ftp.fu-berlin.de (130.133.4.50)
	/pub/unix/editor/mined.tar.Z (108841 Bytes)
	/pub/pc/editor/mined_pc.zip (114522 Bytes)
ftp.uni-koeln.de (134.95.80.1)		(thanks to the anonymous uploader)
	/editor/mined.tar.Z (108841 Bytes)
The zip version is now only almost identical to the tar version. The 
sources terminate lines with CR/LF instead of LF, the filenames are 
MSDOS compliant, and an MSDOS executable mined.exe is included, 
so the zip file is also longer now.

Due to slow connections between Europe and America, it would also be 
of value if alternative locations abroad of these files could be 
announced here after integration into any ftp server.

Let me add some comments about the compilability of mined:
After some feedback, I had made up the currently available version 
so that it compiles without warnings with 
gcc -D... -ansi -pedantic -Wall -W...
which was desired by some mailers.
However, for this I had to include lots of extern declarations which 
may again pose problems of redeclaration on other systems, due to 
the vast variation of include file contents among C compilers. There 
does not seem to be a global solution to this problem. So if you get 
warnings like "identifier redeclared: printf" etc, just delete the 
respective lines from the source. 
On the NeXT, e.g., I was told that deleting the extern declarations 
for printf and wait, and replacing the inclusion of <unistd.h> with 
<sys/wait.h>, then compiling with SGTTY (see Makefile) and -ansi 
makes it work if you don't mind ignoring warnings.
A more severe problem is that I/O libraries seem to be much more 
different and varying than just the difference of TERMIO/SGTTY.
I'd be glad to receive any solutions in this area for machines I don't 
have access to.

Thomas Wolff
wolff@inf.fu-berlin.de
From: bevan@cs.man.ac.uk (Stephen J Bevan)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: sam (was Re: Why I love VI)
Date: 29 Aug 92 14:17:34 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester
In-reply-to: pete@minster.york.ac.uk's message of 28 Aug 92 13:41:55 GMT

In article <715009315.21223@minster.york.ac.uk> pete@minster.york.ac.uk writes:
   Stephen J Bevan (bevan@cs.man.ac.uk) wrote:
   : Seriously, something that bugs me about sam is that it duplicates some
   : of mux's functions to allow it to be a multi-file editor.  

   Yes -- but consider people who _aren't_ running mux. For example, I run sam
   under X about half of the time and mux the rest;

I'm sure the duplication of features is handy if your not running mux,
but that still doesn't alter that point that sam was designed for Plan
9, where mux would be running.  Under those circumstances I think the
design is wrong.  (big IMHO here of course :-)


   : This is reasonably simple if you use a decent language to control
   : your applications 

   Hmmm, I would have thought it was a lower-level feature than that. Just
   because dired in gnuemacs is a lisp package doesn't mean that corresponding
   functions in other editors have to be -- it would be more efficient if it
   was a builtin primitive...

But almost anything will be quicker as a builtin, but that way lies
editor bloat.  It is a tough job deciding what should and shouldn't be
built in to an editor, and I think Pike has done better than most, but
IMHO it still has too many things in it.


   : but it seems that developers either shy completely
   : away from using a language (Pike - sam, Joy - vi) or use one but
   : through a combination of things, screw it up.  

   I'd rather use no language in an editor than a botched or inefficient one.

True, but there is no law saying "thou shalt botch up the language in
your editor" :-)


   Agree with you about scheme - it should be possible to embed a tiny scheme
   such as Carrette's ``siod'' into an editor as a macro language.

Not quick enought IMHO.  Interpreters are great for prototyping, but I 
I want something I can download native code into and have it running
at full speed.  I'd like to be proven wrong, but I think that there is
a better chance of producing a fast native code FORTH than Scheme.


   What are your thoughts on editors like point, which is very heavily based
   around use of Tcl? My impression is that the language is nice, but the user
   interface which has been grafted on to it is tacky to say the least...

Never used "point".  I have used TCL though, but not for long.  It
just didn't give me anything _I_ wanted that I didn't feel was better
served by Scheme or FORTH.

bevan
From: mcohen@amsaa-cleo.brl.mil (Marty Cohen)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Word Perfect to Fax Board
Keywords: conversion
Date: 27 Aug 92 15:19:42 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity

I would like to use Word Perfect 5.1 to create documents
containing tables, font changes, pictures, equations, etc.,
and send them through my fax board.  WP 5.1 will generate
Postscript for Apple Laser Writer printers; I can save this
to a file.  I have a conversion program that will accept
"encapsulated postscript" and produce a graphic files acceptable
to the fax board.  How do I convert the postscript file to EPS?
Is there another approach?
-- 
Marty Cohen  mcohen@brl.mil  {uunet|rutgers}!brl!mcohen
Custom House Rm 800, Phila. PA 19106 (215)597-8377 Fax (215)597-2240
From: pete@minster.york.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: A Sub-512K Word Processor, Anyone?
Date: 1 Sep 92 11:11:33 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Joe Trott (joet@dcatlas.dot.gov) wrote:
: cb@wixer.cactus.org (Cyberspace Buddha) writes:
: 
: >> A friend of mine has an AMSTRAD 1512 PC with no expansion boards.
: >> 
: >> Can anyone recommend a Word Processor that will run on the system
: >> (512K) and still have enough RAM left to cope with documents up to
: >> 30 pages in length?
: 
: Multimate is page-oriented (i.e. it only keeps one page in RAM at a time).
: It can be slow, but is otherwise a viable choice.
: 
: -JTT

Try Protext or Tasword. Or, for that matter, Locoscript. All are relatively
small, but unfortunately not particularly powerful or friendly.

Pete
--
*Peter Fenelon -- Research Associate -- Software Safety Assessment Procedures*
Dept. of Computer Science, University of York, York, Y01 5DD (+44/0)904 433388
EMAIL: pete@minster.york.ac.uk `There's no room for enigmas in built up areas'
Newsgroups: comp.editors
From: ORAKEL@rzmain.rz.uni-ulm.de (Framstag)
Subject: SEDT for UNIX - where?
Organization: University of Ulm, Germany
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 19:08:45 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.23

In the CED-faq-list I read about SEDT, a EDT look-alike.
I looked at all ftp-sites which are listed, but I only found binaries for
PCs.
Where can I get the SEDT-sources for compiling on sunOS and Ultrix?

thanx - Ulli


\  Ulli 'Framstag' Horlacher    \   psi%0262450502601::rzmain::orakel    \
 \  Student consultant VAX/VMS and networks    \  orakel@dulruu51.bitnet  \
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From: pete@minster.york.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Why I love VI
Date: 26 Aug 92 11:36:30 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Tim.Goodwin (tlg@uknet.ac.uk) wrote:
: 
: If you had 8 1/2, you'd have sam, so you wouldn't want to be messin'
: around with vi.

I think sam is available to anyone with an AT&T source licence. (ok, that's
perhaps not everyone!). We've certainly got sam on our Suns, with
samterms (the windowing/mouse/cut&paste front end) for X and mux.

An excellent text editor indeed -- sam concentrates on _getting the job
done_ rather than piddling about with customisation and fancy/useless
macros.

Even as a straightforward ed replacement (i.e. running on a glass tty)
the command language is many times more powerful and does wonderful things
-- regular expressions across multiple files? No problem!

The combination of windows and command language makes it, IMHO, utterly unbeatable
as far as Unix editors go.

Unfortunately the trend in editors seems to be towards unnecessary
bulk.  Sam does everything I need in a total of 53k for the editor and
110k for the front end. Stick that in gnuemacs's pipe and smoke it :-)

Pete
--
*Peter Fenelon -- Research Associate -- Software Safety Assessment Procedures*
Dept. of Computer Science, University of York, York, Y01 5DD (+44/0)904 433388
EMAIL: pete@minster.york.ac.uk `There's no room for enigmas in built up areas'
Newsgroups: comp.editors
From: ian@unipalm.co.uk (Ian Phillipps)
Subject: Re: Command line editing in vi - a macro
Organization: Unipalm Ltd., 216 Cambridge Science Park, Cambridge CB4 4WA, UK
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 12:07:42 GMT

stv@ferret.uucp (Steve Manning) writes:

>In article <1992Aug12.021145.5902@nuscc.nus.sg> ccechk@nuscc.nus.sg (Heng Kek) writes:
>>            How may I 'recall' the last cmd I entered in vi in such
>>a way that I can edit that command and execute it?  Something like
>>the history command editing in tcsh.

>Whenever I find that I'm going to be constructing a long pattern
>such as the one you list, I will take advantage of vi's ability to
>execute the contents of a named buffer as a macro.  Typing the
>AT-symbol ('@') followed by a letter (in command mode, of course)
>will do this.  Of course, this does require you to take steps before-
>hand to do it and so is not "history command editing".

I find very useful the mapping:
:map <some key> ms"syy@s`s

Which uses buffer "s" and text mark "s". It obeys the current line as a
command, so that if I put a suitable command into the buffer, I can run
it. It returns the cursor to the same place using mark "s" - this is a
luxury item, but very useful if the command reads a file, for example.

I've had no troubles with the old or new SunOS vi (the "new" version
announces itself as SVR3.1).

I even went through a phase of using "vi" as my normal shell.

Example - the ":r!date" was typed in, then the "Insert" key pressed:

:r!date
Wed Sep  2 12:58:35 BST 1992

Ian
-- 
Ian Phillipps, Unipalm Ltd, 216 Science Park,		Phone +44 223 420002
Milton Road, Cambridge, CB4 4WA, England.		Phax  +44 223 426868
	The road to hell is paved with melting snowballs - Larry Wall
From: mschee@bcarh600.bnr.ca (Michael SamChee)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: How do we include a "|" in vi macros ??
Keywords: vi, macros, special characters
Date: 31 Aug 92 18:56:56 GMT
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada

Does anyone know how one can include the pipe character "|" in a vi macro?

eg. map ^A :!exec cat tmp | more

Nothing I've tried seems to work.
Hmm.

Thanxs,
Michael.
From: stuart@austin.ibm.com (Stuart R. Yoder)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: SUMMARY sending mail from shell
Date: 25 Aug 92 13:42:45 GMT
Reply-To: stuart@piobe.austin.ibm.com
Organization: IBM Austin
Originator: stuart@piobe.austin.ibm.com


In article <1992Aug24.143011.4661@news.duc.auburn.edu>, hendefd@woof.duc.auburn.edu (Frank Henderson) writes:
> original post:
> >I need a shell script (csh or sh) to send me mail after completion.
> >I tried /usr/lib/sendmail -bm -fperson -t me and then echo'ing a 
> >message but this requires an EOF or CTRL-d which I don't know how
> >to do from a shell.  Could someone tell me how to do this or suggest
> >a better way.
> 
> The popular answer was use mail:
> 	mail -s "$0 done" user << EOS
> 	Hey, $0 finished at `date`.
> 	All these folks were on the system at the time:
> 	`who`
> 	EOS
> 
> Most everyone gave this response with slightly different flavors.
> 
> Also -  echo '\004' is control D.
> 

As a follow up to this, is there a way to send mail from a shell
(as described above) but also copy other users on the message
( Cc: foo@bar ).  When I use the mail command interactively, it
prompts for Cc:, but non-interactively I can't figure out how
to copy users on a message.
-- 
-Stuart
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