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Subject: Re: Ada syntax patents
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Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> Reading
>     "http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?"
> &
"Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html"
> &   "&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220040230959%22.PGNR."
> &   "&OS=DN/20040230959&RS=DN/20040230959", i.e.
>
>
http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220040230959%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20040230959&RS=DN/20040230959
>
> about compiling the BASIC IsNot operator, Patent Application
20040230959.
>
> What's this? What are they trying to protect? Is something
> like this on the way for Ada?
>  Interesting, everyone with an interest in a software exchange
> with a US resident/whatever will have to consider whether they
> can use comparison operators without being US-charged, patent
> (im)pending.
> 
> -- Georg