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From: Ralf.Brown@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU
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Subject: Re: Prior use of the name "ARC"
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Date: 17 Sep 88 13:27:18 GMT
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In article <3515@tekigm2.TEK.COM>, timothym@tekigm2.TEK.COM (Timothy D Margeson) writes:
}Hi Agin...:-)
}
}The prior use of ARC as stated by KPETERSEN is dated around 1960, and 
}therefore falls under the copyrigth statute of limitations (17 years, unless
}a renewal is applied for, or sufficient modifications to the work have been
}made to protect the work in it's majority).

You must be thinking of patents, which are 17-year monopolies.  Copyrights
until 1974(?) were 28 years, renewable for another 28.  Copyrights now are
75 years or author's life + 50, whichever is longer.
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