In a message dated 10/15/2005 3:57:07 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>If memory serves me, they (IBM) try and patent a lot of stuff that >really has not real technical value. Sounds like a numbers game to me. Yes, IBM does innovate. And some of their patents are filed not for innovation purposes but rather for obfuscation. E.g., if you have invented X and are about to implement it in your new line of processors/DASD/whatevers, you file a dozen patent applications claiming that U, V, W, X, Y, Z, et al., are new ways to do your new innovative thing in your processors/DASD/whatevers. This greatly slows down the reverse engineering done by your competitors which frantically begins when you first start shipping your new line of processors/DASD/whatevers. There is more than one reason to file a patent application. Or, as my late grandmother used to say, "there are more ways to kill a dog than by choking it to death on butter." She lived in the mountains of western North Carolina where there are many such quaint sayings, and, as far as I know, she never sucked eggs. Bill Fairchild ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
