On Apr 11, 2005 1:16 PM, Michael O'Keefe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ian MacLure wrote:
> > Two Words:
> >
> > Prior Art
>
> Even with Prior Art, it takes $$ to void a patent.
> The whole patent system needs to exclude software, plain and simple.
> If you can't physically touch it, you can't patent it (I know this flies in
> the face of my employer who is a major patent holder in technologies that
> can't be physically touched - so what to do about that ? tuff ? change my
> view ? think of something different ? maybe another standard of
> patentability ?)
Just for background information, Unix SetUID is patented, by Dennis
Ritchie. The algorithm was translated into hardware terms in order to
make the patent possible. Historically, that is the one and only Unix
patent, and it was assigned to the public.
carl
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