From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,525be57bd7f45978 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!proxad.net!freenix!oleane.net!oleane!hunter.axlog.fr!nobody From: Jean-Pierre Rosen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada syntax patents Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 11:24:03 +0100 Organization: Adalog Message-ID: <0klhvc.ael.ln@hunter.axlog.fr> References: <421b581b$0$13221$9b4e6d93@newsread4.arcor-online.net> <1109148987.384389.187240@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mailhost.axlog.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: s1.news.oleane.net 1109156833 13272 195.25.228.57 (23 Feb 2005 11:07:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@oleane.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 11:07:13 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: fr, en In-Reply-To: <1109148987.384389.187240@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8471 Date: 2005-02-23T11:24:03+01:00 List-Id: 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. -- --------------------------------------------------------- J-P. Rosen (rosen@adalog.fr) Visit Adalog's web site at http://www.adalog.fr