Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!uwmcsd1!ig!agate!ucbvax!decwrl!spar!hunt From: hunt@spar.SPAR.SLB.COM (Neil Hunt) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Patent Novelty (was: Re: Phil Katz (PKARC author) sued b) Message-ID: <1613@spar.SPAR.SLB.COM> Date: 7 Jul 88 01:47:22 GMT References: <151@kadsma.kadsm> <2000002@cpe> <974@flatline.UUCP> <229@humming.UUCP> Reply-To: hunt@spar.UUCP (Neil Hunt) Organization: SPAR - Schlumberger Palo Alto Research Lines: 23 For further enlightment about material which may be patented, check out issued US patents #D295632 and #D295633, both by Wells-Papanek, Verplank and Cox. Patent number D295632: ICON FOR WASTEBASKET OR THE LIKE. May 10, 1988. Claim: The ornamental design for an icon for wastebasket of the like, as shown and described. Patent number D295633: ICON FOR PC EMULATION OR THE LIKE. May 10, 1988. Claim: The ornamental design for an icon for a PC emulation or the like, as shown and described. Both are assigned to the Xerox corporation. The wastebasket is barely recognisable, it looks like a panorama of snow covered mountains perched on top of a box ! (The PC is harder to miss -- it consists of a small box inside a larger box representing a screen, with the letters PC written inside; the whole thing is equipped with three knobs and sits on a third PC-shaped box.) Neil/. -- hunt@spar.slb.com ...{amdahl|decwrl|hplabs}!spar!hunt