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- Subject: [ADMIN] Comp.patents FTP Information
- Organization: Basser Dept of Computer Science, University of Sydney, Australia
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 07:26:06 GMT
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- Archive-name: comp.patents-faq
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- FTP sites of Patent information
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- Formulative stage !!!
- Contributions welcome!!
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- NOTE: care must be taken re that permission is sought re
- contractual stipulations if information is forwarded from
- commercial databases...
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- (1) List of Relevant software patents maintained by
- mernst@theory.lcs.mit.edu (Michael Ernst)
- Any additions please send direct to Michael
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- Located at:
- mintaka.lcs.mit.edu:/mitlpf/ai/patent-list
- jupiter.ee.pitt.edu:pub/patent/patent-list
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- available at jupiter
- lzw-patent.Z
- README
- patent-list
- SW-patent-errata
- SW-patent-response
- SW-patent-RFC
- SW-Patent-mail.tex
- backing-store-letter
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- (2) The following information can be obtained via anonymous ftp from
- ftp.su.oz.au in pub/patents/
- rusmv1.rus.uni-stuttgart.de [129.69.1.12] in /info/comp.patents/
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- archive/ - archive of old comp.patent postings
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- best/ - moderators collection of informative posts
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- carl/ - collection of old post from Carl Oppedahl
- <0001811496@mcimail.com>, who is a patent attorney and
- regular contributor to the group.
-
- summary/ - Patent law summaries
- non-US at present.
-
- US4558302 - lzw-patent compress patent
- USPTO - Recent discussion paper on reform of the USPTO
- US4555775 - ATT Backing store patent
- attletter - letter by ATT to X- consortium
- mitletter - MIT's response to the ATT letter
- AI300 - list of 300 AI patents in 1989
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- (3) Periodic Lists
- for contributions please see the following
- see (1) above
-
- See also periodic posting in comp.patents of patents
- dealing with neural networks maintiained by Greg Aharonian,
- srctran@world.std.com
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- (4) patents information at prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/lpf/
- There is patent information on this directory from the League for
- Programming Freedom, including LPF position papers, analysis and
- full text of several patents, and comments given to the US PTO regarding
- modifications to US Patent Law.
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- This is perhaps the most extensive source of information on
- patents and is recommended to newcomers to these issues.
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- ai.patent.list.Z\ Artificial intelligence patents from 1989.
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- best-handout.texinfo.Z\ LPF handout (texinfo).
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- bidzos.letter.Z\ Letter from RSA to the chair of the House subcommitte \
- on Technology and Competitiveness.
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- bidzos.response.Z\ Response to bidzos.letter.
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- bios.texinfo\ Bios of LPF people.
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- borland-amicus-brief.Z\
- Final Draft of the Law Professor Amicus Brief for the Lotus v. Borland Case
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- byte-order.patent.Z\ Info on the little-endian<->big-endian patent.
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- chess-flyer.ps.Z\ LPF illustration of exclusive-or on chess piece (PostScript).
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- congress.texinfo.Z\ Writing Effectively to Congress (texinfo).
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- copyrighted-languages.texi.Z\
- Copyrighted Programming Languages (and the EC directive on software copyright)
- (texinfo)
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- demo.ap-wire.Z\ Report of LPF demonstration.
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- demo.final.release.Z\ LPF press release for demo.
-
- diamond-v-deihr.quote.Z\ Quote from US case re. `mathematical formulae'
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- europe.xmail.Z\ Some postings from the ELPF mail list (BABYL mail file)
-
- famous.people.Z\ Noteworthy members of the League for Programming Freedom
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- gatt.text.Z\
- `Intellectual property' law under the General Agreement on Tarrifs and Trade.
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- handout.gore.ps.Z\ LPF anti-monopolies handout (PostScript).
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- ibm.think.article.Z\ IBM insider's view of software patents.
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- index.Z\ INDEX OF LPF MATERIALS
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- integration.patent.Z\
- An example of patenting a mathematical discovery \
- (a Monte Carlo integration technique).
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- issues.latex.Z\
- Why Patents Are Bad for Software; \
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- jefferson.quotation.Z\
- Thomas Jefferson on protefting ideas.
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- kapor.testimony.Z\
- Testimony of Mitchell D. Kapor (co-author of Lotus 1-2-3) \
- in congressional hearing
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- laf-fallacies.texi.Z\
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- Three Common Fallacies In the User Interface Copyright Debate (texinfo)
- look-and-feel.texinfo.Z\
- Against User Interface Copyright [LPF position paper] (texinfo)
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- lotus-brief.government.Z\
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- lzw-patent.Z\
- Text of the LZW (`compress') patent.
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- materials.texinfo.Z\
- Materials Available from the League (texinfo)
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- mit.announcement.Z\
- X Consortium announcement on the `backing store' patent threat to X windows.
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- mps-patents.tex.Z\ Report of the Committee on Algorithms and the Law; \
- Mathematical Programming Society (plain TeX)
-
- ndemo\
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- overkill\
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- parcplace.endorsement.Z\
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- lpf-patent-list.Z\ List of patents the LPF have one file.
-
- patent-list.Z\ A compilation of software patents (superset of lpf-patent-list)
-
- patent-office.answer.Z\ Response by the League for Programming Freedom
- to the request for public comment \
- of the United States Patent and Trademark Office
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- patents.texinfo.Z\ Against Software Patents [LPF postion paper] (texinfo)
-
- patent-office.rfc.Z\
- Request for Comments for the Advisory Commission on Patent Law Reform (USA)
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- patent.4916610.Z\
- Racal "Multilanguage software integration through preprocessing"
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- patent.4956809.Z\ Mark Williams byte-order patent
-
- patent.5083262.Z\
- IBM "Language bindings for graphics functions to enable one \
- application program to be used in different processing environments"
-
- patent.essence.Z\ C code for essence of LZ compression patent 4,464,650
-
- patent.events.Z\ some events in the software patents story (BABYL mail file)
-
- pike.demo.Z\ Press release on picket of Rib Pike at MIT
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- plaintiff.addresses.Z\
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- protection.texi.Z\ The Software Protection Racket (texinfo)
-
- recruit.texinfo.Z\ How to Recruit Members for the League (texinfo)
-
- samuelson\ Articles by Pamela Samuelson
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- signs.texinfo.Z\ Making Protest Signs (texinfo)
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- speakers.texinfo.Z\ Becoming a League Speaker (texinfo)
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- supreme-court.patents.Z\
- quote from The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co. vs. Supermarket Corp. (1950)
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- techrev.patents.Z\ `The Software Patent Crisis' by Brian Kahn.
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- lotus.texinfo.Z\ `Lotus disinformation'
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