Re: Patent

Jesse Pollard (pollard@tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil)
Wed, 3 Nov 1999 08:07:04 -0600 (CST)

From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
>It would be interesting for someone to set up a www.priorart.org web
>site, dedicated towards finding and exposing stupid USPTO tricks; the
>problem is that it would be a legal lightening rod, and it would have to
>be careful to disclaim that it was giving anything that might be
...

I vaguely remember the ACM having some software patent articles/tracing.
The reason I remember something on this was a patent by toshiba? on a method
of calling a reusable code module (ie. a subroutine call).

The ACM archives might have some initial data available.
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