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At 10:00 +0000 1999/03/22, D. Tweed wrote:
>Does this mean that if I was (for some bizarre reason) so inclined and I
>could produce a language, which didn't use any techniques which could be
>disallowed due to `prior art', I could get `patent coverage' on the entire
>language by dealing with the with implementation and syntactic appearance
>separately?
My guess is that there is a difference between a market name and patent
rights. The latter is much more restrictive.
I recall that Microsoft made extensions and modifications of Java, runnable
only on MSOS, and was forced by court to not do that over a lawsuit from
Sun.
But I think that was a dispute over the market name Java and not over
patent rights or rights of intellectual property. By calling their version
say Borneo, Microsoft could have still used their altered Java.
Hans Aberg
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