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- From: gardner@convex.com (Steve Gardner)
- Subject: Re: Question from someone who's new to all this
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- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 16:57:14 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan3.170453.28445@zip.eecs.umich.edu> positron@quip.eecs.umich.edu (Jonathan Haas) writes:
- >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.
- It is my understanding that they can only patent an algorithm
- under the US view of "intellectual property". The US has been
- trying to force this view on the rest of its trading partners
- for some time. Fortunately with some lack of success.
-
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- smg
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