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| Authored by: darrellb on Thursday, May 31 2012 @ 06:55 AM EDT |
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| Authored by: hardmath on Thursday, May 31 2012 @ 11:38 AM EDT |
Ian Al wrote:
Tell me again: why is it a useful
invention?
If I could tell you that, Ian, I'd be in a much
stronger
bargaining
position!
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| Authored by: xtifr on Thursday, May 31 2012 @ 12:39 PM EDT |
If the poster who claimed it's expiring this year is correct, then yeah, you
probably could use it, should you so want. Personally, I think it looks like a
really poor solution to the problem, and can't imagine why anyone would
<em>want</em> to use it, but yeah. (This is the patent that Java
doesn't even use, no?)
On the other hand, if you happen to have been using it all along, you may still
be in trouble even after it expires. There is, as I understand it, a brief
window after a patent expires where the patent holder can still go after people
for past violations. I was going to point this out earlier, but then I realized
that nobody in their right mind would have been violating the patent in the
first place, so I didn't bother. :)
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