From: Jean-Pierre Rosen <rosen@adalog.fr>
Subject: Re: Ada syntax patents
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 11:24:03 +0100
Date: 2005-02-23T11:24:03+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0klhvc.ael.ln@hunter.axlog.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1109148987.384389.187240@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>
rien a �crit :
> Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> more seriously, is there a way to protect ourself from such a patent ?
> and what are the implication of such a patent ?
>
IANAL, but I've heard that one of the criteria for a valid patent is
"not obvious for a man of the art", which certainly would apply in this
case.
But as someone else pointed out, the trouble is FUD and the money it
costs to attack such stupid patents.
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-22 16:04 Ada syntax patents Georg Bauhaus
2005-02-23 7:59 ` Martin Krischik
2005-02-23 8:56 ` rien
2005-02-23 9:42 ` Martin Krischik
2005-02-23 10:54 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-02-23 11:00 ` Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler
2005-02-23 12:44 ` Martin Krischik
2005-02-23 14:02 ` Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler
2005-02-23 19:14 ` Preben Randhol
2005-02-23 10:24 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen [this message]
2005-02-23 14:54 ` rien
2005-02-24 19:31 ` Charles Lindsey
2005-02-24 16:04 ` george.priv
2005-02-24 19:16 ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-02-24 19:52 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-02-24 20:50 ` tmoran
2005-02-24 22:19 ` Georg Bauhaus
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