--- On Wed, 5/20/09, Craig James <[email protected]> wrote:
> A molecule can be patented, and its drawing > (the 2D coordinates) may be subject to copyright. this is legal grey area; case law allows the drawing itself since it is not creative; words about it are copyrighted whereas ideas aren't > Anyone can "erase" copyrights by simply running the > molecules through his/her favorite 2D depictor such as > OpenBable's --gen2D option. But the patents, if any, > won't go away. there is a time limit on patents and some gene patents are being disallowed ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Blueobelisk-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/blueobelisk-discuss
