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From: gft_robert@gsbacd.uchicago.edu
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Subject: Re: New Macintosh Strategy
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Date: 5 Nov 90 20:49:05 GMT
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In article <77800053@m.cs.uiuc.edu>, gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes...
 
> 
>(1) Patents are not issued for computer algorithms.  Only trade secret
>and copyright protection is available for such algorithms (and
>languages, like quickdraw, which is copyrighted).  I disbelieve that
>any part of the Quickdraw code is patented in a way that would stand
>up in court.


Bzzt!  Wrong answer!

Patents ARE issued for computer algorithms.

Parts of the Mac toolbox ARE patented.  Example: "Regions" (by Bill Atkinson). 
Look it up.

If your argument is that patents issued by the US Patent Office won't stand up
in court, I guess anything's possible, but I since I'm not a patent lawyer --
and neither are you -- there's not much to say about this.  No matter what you
"believe".

Any patent lawyers out there want to comment on the possibility of overturning
issued patents?


Robert

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