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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, December 06 2012 @ 09:50 AM EST |
Because they probably do. The USPTO doesn't search Open Source/Free
Software projects for Prior Art to the best of my knowledge, and even if
they did, unless the Examiner was a programmer, they probably wouldn't
understand it.
The USPTO is less than competent.
Wayne
http://madhatter.ca
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Authored by: maroberts on Thursday, December 06 2012 @ 10:15 AM EST |
My reasoning was that most of the patents appear to be for
composite systems rather than things like individual devices,
and it isn't until you stick several parts together that there
is a possibility of a patent infringement. As the GPL code is
(mostly) low level stuff the likelihood of a patent existing
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- GPL - Authored by: PJ on Thursday, December 06 2012 @ 01:31 PM EST
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