At 01:36 AM 7/10/03 -0600, Robert Rolf wrote:

>Oops, you just infringed an AT&T patent.
>
>Seems that a Popular (Radio?) Electronics columnist wrote in the late 70's
>an article about doing exactly that,
>to experiment with bidirectional communication over the 'new'
>optical fibre technology.
>
>AT&T lawyers showed up with the police to execute a search warrant on
>his home, claiming that he must have committed industrial espionage in
>order for him to have written about their yet to be obtained patent.
>The columnist was so pissed off that he dedicated half his column to slamming
>their strong arm tactics.  I think it was Don Lancaster, but I'm not certain.

Actually, it was Forrest W Mimms III.  Many will recognize the name from
his "Engineer's Notebook" series often seen at Radio Shack.

dwayne

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