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- From: jp107@amtp.cam.ac.uk (Jon Peatfield)
- Subject: Re: Photo-CD
- In-Reply-To: jbuck@forney.berkeley.edu's message of 1 Sep 92 21:07:30 GMT
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- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 01:35:07 GMT
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- Certainly the British government is of the opinion that GATT will not
- affect the patentability of algorithms. The patent office have stated
- that currently patents may not be granted on algorithms, and they
- claim that this will not change under the current draft of GATT if
- adopted. Of course they mey be wrong, or the draft may change.
-
- I'm not clear what Alan Cox means by 'dissasembling' but certain types
- of reverse engineering are not permitted, (and GATT gets another
- couple I think.) However writing code to a cleanroom derived spec of
- a produce is legal (I think), ... at the moment.
-
- Of course this could be lies and rumours...
-
- -- Jon
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- Jon Peatfield, Computer Officer, the DAMTP, University of Cambridge
- Telephone: (+44 223) 33-7852 Mail: J.S.Peatfield@amtp.cam.ac.uk
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