Tom Renz writes:

> Good News!!
>
>  The Y2K "Date Windowing" concept recently assigned a patent has been
ordered
> by the Assistant Secretary and Commissioner of the Patent Office for
> reexamination on December 21.
>
>  For further info you can see the story at
"http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/
> com/speeches/99-51.htm".

Well that's certainly disappointing. I was planning on filing my patent
application next week on lower case letters in ASCII -- and retiring one or
two years later.

Wirt Atmar