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From: Jim Henderson
Date: 18 Nov 2009 14:18:25
Message: <4b044881$1@news.povray.org>

On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:32:59 -0700, Patrick Elliott wrote:

> They still search these things using filing cabinets and punch cards
> don't they?

I don't believe so - there's several publicly accessible PTO database 
search engines; IBM used to have one (don't know if they do any more) and 
I believe Google does as well now.

Jim

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