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Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 17:04:50 +0100
From: Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.de>
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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