David Brodbeck <bro...@u.washington.edu> wrote:
> Well, not quite. In that hypothetical scenario, the existing Java
> implementation would be prior art and would make the patent invalid. The
> problem is the Patent Office generally doesn't reject patents based on prior
> art, because they don't have the expertise. So someone would have to get
> sued and fight a lengthy legal battle to prove the patent was invalid. At
> least, that's my understanding. IANAL.
... the same way as the existing WOFS code I wrote in 1990 invalidates the
important patents from Netapp for COW filesystems.
This may become impoartant once Netapp might be interested in Illumos users
later on.
Jörg
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