From Alex Dow
Your correspondent Keith Franklin asks if the Patent Office assumes
The Beano comic is not fictional
(4 December, p 53).
Recently in
the local branch of a national bookstore I found this year’s The Beano
Annual displayed under the heading “New Non-fiction”. The Patent
Office—and the bookseller—may know something the rest of us don’t.
Cowdenbeath, Fife
