> I am not sure exactly what the penalty is for not > doing so, like for example loosing the ability to claim > damages up until the point of disclosure, or worse.
Would be very interesting to hear. I'm talking to > Oh also, this is not just US patent law. Most of the laws on > patents have been "internationalized". As I understand it (haven't examined it in depth though), the EU's *software* patent law still differs significantly from the US' - there was a lot of buzz this autumn when a new, more US-like law, was NOT passed. I *think* I'm still free to infringe all I want as a non-US citizen, as long as I don't sell the product that uses the patent (at least that's my secret hope). BTW, I think MM has patented image synthesis as well, no 5,467,443 - generating pixels from a set of parameters (if I decode it properly). That's like all image formats except pure bitmaps. Procedural textures, vector formats, and probably all 3D graphics as well. I wonder if they've sued nVIDIA and ATI yet? And Microsoft for having the WMF file format and ways of presenting it? /Jonas -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.14.9/216 - Release Date: 2005-12-29
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