From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Decoding an octet stream
Date: 1999/12/04
Date: 1999-12-04T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <82a4c0$8q0$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 827a95$4ti$1@nntp3.atl.mindspring.net
In article <827a95$4ti$1@nntp3.atl.mindspring.net>,
swhalen@netcom.com wrote:
> The proof requirements for "prior art" and
> "obviousness" is quite hard to do in software, because
> software is generally not a well documented field compared to
> many.
Yes, indeed, prior art is only valid from a legal point of view
if publication requirements are met. It is not good enough to
say "everyone knows this, and point to programs in which it has
been used", your burden is to point to appropriate publication
of the ideas. There have been a number of litigated cases in
which of course there was prior art, and indeed lots and lots
of programmers were aware of the technique and it was widely
used, but no one actually "published" the idea in a legal
sense, until someone came along and patented the idea.
Sound horrible? yes indeed!
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Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-11-28 0:00 Decoding an octet stream Florian Weimer
1999-11-29 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-11-30 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
1999-12-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-01 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-01 0:00 ` swhalen
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-02 0:00 ` tmoran
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Kenneth Almquist
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Stupid patent tricks (was: Decoding an octet stream) Ted Dennison
1999-12-06 0:00 ` Decoding an octet stream Kenneth Almquist
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-02 0:00 ` swhalen
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-12-03 0:00 ` swhalen
1999-12-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1999-12-04 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-03 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-06 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-06 0:00 ` Ed Falis
1999-12-07 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-08 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-12-08 0:00 ` Numeric types Mario Amado Alves
1999-12-08 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Decoding an octet stream Robert Dewar
1999-12-07 0:00 ` Stefan Skoglund
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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