RE: bearbox

[Nigel Orr <nigel@xxxxxxx>]

At 13:00 13/10/00 +0100, you wrote:
>The person you need to talk to for more info is Gail Corbett, PR and
>Marketing Manager.

Whose phone is often busy... but I eventually got through.  Apparently
there are currently no patents granted for it- patents aren't mentioned on
the http://www.laing-homes.co.uk/corporate/news/newsdelivery.html
page but
are mentioned on Mark's news page at
http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/main.html?newsid=102
- presumably that's
from a separate press release?

Gail wasn't able to provide any more details on authentication (ie how it
provides the equivalent of a signature to the courier), but I've got
another contact from her who might be able to help with that query.

So, thanks for the contact- having looked into it further, sadly I suspect
I was beaten to it by a long way by US Patent US04024729
http://www.delphion.com/details?pn=US04024729__
, remarkably, in
1977!!!!  If that one wasn't about to expire, and the holder had a good
lawyer, they could have got very rich over the next 10 years or so...

:-(

Nigel


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