On Monday 28 January 2008 02:13, Michael Rogers wrote: > Does MS have a patent on CHKs? > ... > It's an interesting puzzle of intellectual history. The idea > certainly seems to have been "in the air", as both Mojo Nation and > Freenet were working on it before the May 2000 patent submission by > Doceur et al., but Mojo Nation and Freenet each published the idea > shortly after May 2000. According to my limited understanding of > patent law, this means that they don't count as prior art on that > patent.
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