On Sun, Jul 04, 1999 at 12:19:09PM +0200, Gabriel Bouvigne wrote:
> I think the main problem could be the patents who are suddendly enforced by
> their owners, but were not in the past, like the LZW of Unisys used in Gif.
Generally a company can lose its patent if it doesn't enforce it for
some time, I don't know what the time frame is but some company can't
suddenly claim patent infringement if it did nothing for a long time.
> BTW, do you know any server where we could download the patents texts in pdf
> or something else for free?
http://www.patents.ibm.com/
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