Melinda Shore <mshore(_at_)cisco(_dot_)com> writes:
If one were to get anal about it, legally intellectual property claims
have to be actively protected in order to remain valid.
I could be wrong, but I've always heard that this is only true of
trademarks, and at least I don't see anything in the copyright laws in the
U.S. to this effect for copyrights.
And I'd think that a lot of people would have lost their patents if this
were true of patents.
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Russ Allbery (rra(_at_)stanford(_dot_)edu)
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