Re: [Fwd: Re: [p2p-hackers] [tahoe-dev] Surely M$ can patent this process?]
Matthew Toseland <toad-EI5O+8PHWbJeeLb3ft/[email protected]>
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On Monday 28 January 2008 02:13, Michael Rogers wrote: > Does MS have a patent on CHKs? > ... > It's an interesting puzzle of intellectual history. The idea > certainly seems to have been "in the air", as both Mojo Nation and > Freenet were working on it before the May 2000 patent submission by > Doceur et al., but Mojo Nation and Freenet each published the idea > shortly after May 2000. According to my limited understanding of > patent law, this means that they don't count as prior art on that > patent. This ought to be evidence of obviousness... but probably isn't. :| _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech
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