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- From: positron@quip.eecs.umich.edu (Jonathan Haas)
- Subject: Question from someone who's new to all this
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.170453.28445@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
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- Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept., Ann Arbor
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- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 17:04:53 GMT
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- Question:
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- How can someone (PKP) patent a mathematical algorithm?
- Has this patent yet been challenged in court? It seems
- to me that it would be like trying to patent the Pythagorean
- Theorem.
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