From cube-lovers-errors@mc.lcs.mit.edu Wed Feb 25 21:29:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: from sun28.aic.nrl.navy.mil by mc.lcs.mit.edu (8.8.1/mc) with SMTP id VAA04737; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 21:29:51 -0500 (EST) Precedence: bulk Errors-To: cube-lovers-errors@mc.lcs.mit.edu Mail-from: From cube-lovers-request@life.ai.mit.edu Wed Feb 25 18:29:45 1998 Message-Id: <9802252330.AA19883@jrdmax.jrd.dec.com> Date: Thu, 26 Feb 98 08:30:27 +0900 From: Norman Diamond 26-Feb-1998 0830 To: cube-lovers@ai.mit.edu Subject: Re: Taiwanese Invention of the Cube? Wei-Hwa Huang wote: >I have heard through multi-generation, unreliable sources that the Cube >was first invented and patented by a Taiwanese person. Invention is more or less possible. Surely someone like the famous Mr. Wu (whose given names I've forgotten) would be able to invent it. But if it happened, surely it would be hard to say who came first. As for patenting, somehow the mixture of "patent" and "Taiwan" in the same sentence strikes me as an oxymoron. >A trademark? Somehow the mixture of "trademark" and "Taiwan" strikes me as an oxymoron too, even though they're not in the same sentence. Want to try "copyright" next? :-) -- Norman Diamond diamond@jrdv04.enet.dec-j.co.jp [Speaking for Norman Diamond not for Digital.]