RE: lzw patent search (fwd)

2003-03-11 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
Hmm, did they just tell me that there were other patents to scare me? Maybe a search with the keyword LZW may be enough? Drew Daniels -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 09:15:10 -0500 From: Tartler, Cheryl D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Drew Scott Daniels' [EMAIL

Re: lzw patent search (fwd)

2003-03-11 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 09:31:07AM -0600, Drew Scott Daniels wrote: Hmm, did they just tell me that there were other patents to scare me? Maybe a search with the keyword LZW may be enough? As you're not exactly sure what you're looking for, isn't this rather futile (and possibly dangerous[1])

Re: lzw patent search (fwd)

2003-03-11 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 11:30:00 -0500, Glenn Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 09:31:07AM -0600, Drew Scott Daniels wrote: Hmm, did they just tell me that there were other patents to scare me? Maybe a search with the keyword LZW may be enough? As you're not exactly sure

Re: lzw patent search (fwd)

2003-03-11 Thread Richard Braakman
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 09:31:07AM -0600, Drew Scott Daniels wrote: Hmm, did they just tell me that there were other patents to scare me? Maybe they meant the IBM patent on LZW :-) Have you seen http://cloanto.com/users/mcb/19950127giflzw.html ? (The GIF Controversy: A Software Developer's

Re: lzw patent search (fwd)

2003-03-10 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
Oops, this was supposed to be cc'd to debian-legal not debian-devel. Drew Daniels -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 10:22:56 -0600 (CST) From: Drew Scott Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-devel@lists.debian.org

Re: lzw patent search (fwd)

2003-03-10 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2003 20:04:01 +0100 From: Arnoud Galactus Engelfriet [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Drew Scott Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: lzw patent search Hi, Drew Scott Daniels wrote: When do all the lzw related patents expire? I've heard different

RE: lzw patent search (fwd)

2003-03-10 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
Comments anyone? Seems like a dodge on my questions about Unix compress and GIF, but it is interesting in that now we don't have to speculate on whether the Japanese, European or German patents go longer. Drew Daniels -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 14:25:25