IANAL, but IIRC, today is the day the absurd (and perhaps illegally
gained) LZW patent claim of Unisys runs out in the USA. Merkins can
use GIF now.
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On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 02:16:23PM +0200, Branko Collin wrote:
IANAL, but IIRC, today is the day the absurd (and perhaps illegally
gained) LZW patent claim of Unisys runs out in the USA. Merkins can
use GIF now.
Please wait until 06/2004. There are still patents in Europe and Japan
until
On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Tino Schwarze wrote:
Please wait until 06/2004. There are still patents in Europe and Japan
until then.
And here I thought software, ideas, and maths weren't patentable in
Europe. Japan I don't know about, but I recall the US lobbying for such
things being patentable
On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 03:45:30PM +0200, Marco Wessel wrote:
Please wait until 06/2004. There are still patents in Europe and Japan
until then.
And here I thought software, ideas, and maths weren't patentable in
Europe.
That's what I thought too, but my source
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