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Archive-name: comp.patents-faq

FTP sites of Patent information
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	Formulative stage !!!
	Contributions welcome!!

		NOTE: care must be taken re that permission is sought re
		contractual stipulations if information is forwarded from
		commercial databases...
	
(1)	List of Relevant software patents maintained by
	 	mernst@theory.lcs.mit.edu (Michael Ernst)
	Any additions please send direct to Michael
	
	Located at:
			mintaka.lcs.mit.edu:/mitlpf/ai/patent-list 
			jupiter.ee.pitt.edu:pub/patent/patent-list 

			available at jupiter
				lzw-patent.Z
				README
				patent-list
				SW-patent-errata
				SW-patent-response
				SW-patent-RFC
				SW-Patent-mail.tex
				backing-store-letter


(2) The following information can be obtained via anonymous ftp from
		ftp.su.oz.au in pub/patents/
		rusmv1.rus.uni-stuttgart.de [129.69.1.12] in /info/comp.patents/

			archive/  - archive of old comp.patent postings

			best/ 	  - moderators collection of informative posts

			carl/ 	  - collection of old post from Carl Oppedahl
						<0001811496@mcimail.com>, who is a patent attorney and 
						regular contributor to the group.

			summary/  - Patent law summaries 
						non-US at present.

			US4558302 -  lzw-patent compress patent 
			USPTO	  - Recent discussion paper on reform of the USPTO
			US4555775 - ATT Backing store patent
			attletter - letter by ATT to X- consortium
			mitletter - MIT's response to the ATT letter
			AI300 	  - list of 300 AI patents in 1989

(3) Periodic Lists
	for contributions please see the following
	see (1) above

	See also periodic posting in comp.patents of patents
	dealing with neural networks maintiained by Greg Aharonian,
	srctran@world.std.com

(4)	patents information at prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/lpf/
	There is patent information on this directory from the League for
	Programming Freedom, including LPF position papers, analysis and
	full text of several patents, and comments given to the US PTO regarding
	modifications to US Patent Law.

	This is perhaps the most extensive source of information on
	patents and is recommended to newcomers to these issues.

	 
	ai.patent.list.Z\ Artificial intelligence patents from 1989.

	best-handout.texinfo.Z\ LPF handout (texinfo).

	bidzos.letter.Z\ Letter from RSA to the chair of the House subcommitte \
	on Technology and Competitiveness.

	bidzos.response.Z\ Response to bidzos.letter.

	bios.texinfo\ Bios of LPF people.

	borland-amicus-brief.Z\
	Final Draft of the Law Professor Amicus Brief for the Lotus v. Borland Case
	
	byte-order.patent.Z\ Info on the little-endian<->big-endian patent.
	
	chess-flyer.ps.Z\ LPF illustration of exclusive-or on chess piece (PostScript).
	
	congress.texinfo.Z\ Writing Effectively to Congress (texinfo).
	
	copyrighted-languages.texi.Z\
	Copyrighted Programming Languages  (and the EC directive on software copyright) 
	(texinfo)
	
	demo.ap-wire.Z\ Report of LPF demonstration.
	
	demo.final.release.Z\ LPF press release for demo.
	
	diamond-v-deihr.quote.Z\ Quote from US case re. `mathematical formulae'
	
	europe.xmail.Z\ Some postings from the ELPF mail list (BABYL mail file)
	
	famous.people.Z\ Noteworthy members of the League for Programming Freedom
	
	gatt.text.Z\
	`Intellectual property' law under the General Agreement on Tarrifs and Trade.
	
	handout.gore.ps.Z\ LPF anti-monopolies handout (PostScript).
	
	ibm.think.article.Z\ IBM insider's view of software patents.
	
	index.Z\ INDEX OF LPF MATERIALS
	
	integration.patent.Z\
	An example of patenting a mathematical discovery \
	(a Monte Carlo integration technique).
	
	issues.latex.Z\
	Why Patents Are Bad for Software; \
	
	jefferson.quotation.Z\
	Thomas Jefferson on protefting ideas.
	
	kapor.testimony.Z\
	Testimony of Mitchell D. Kapor (co-author of Lotus 1-2-3) \
	in congressional hearing
	
	laf-fallacies.texi.Z\
	
	Three Common Fallacies In the User Interface Copyright Debate (texinfo)
	look-and-feel.texinfo.Z\
	Against User Interface Copyright [LPF position paper] (texinfo)
	
	lotus-brief.government.Z\
	
	lzw-patent.Z\
	Text of the LZW (`compress') patent.
	
	materials.texinfo.Z\
	Materials Available from the League (texinfo)
	
	mit.announcement.Z\
	X Consortium announcement on the `backing store' patent threat to X windows.
	
	mps-patents.tex.Z\ Report of the Committee on Algorithms and the Law; \
	Mathematical Programming Society (plain TeX)
	
	ndemo\
	
	overkill\
	
	parcplace.endorsement.Z\
	
	lpf-patent-list.Z\ List of patents the LPF have one file.
	
	patent-list.Z\ A compilation of software patents (superset of lpf-patent-list)
	
	patent-office.answer.Z\ Response by the League for Programming Freedom 
	to the request for public comment \
	of the United States Patent and Trademark Office
	
	patents.texinfo.Z\ Against Software Patents [LPF postion paper] (texinfo)
	
	patent-office.rfc.Z\
	Request for Comments for the Advisory Commission on Patent Law Reform (USA)
	
	patent.4916610.Z\
	Racal "Multilanguage software integration through preprocessing"
	
	patent.4956809.Z\ Mark Williams byte-order patent
	
	patent.5083262.Z\
	IBM "Language bindings for graphics functions to enable one \
	application program to be used in different processing environments"
	
	patent.essence.Z\ C code for essence of LZ compression patent 4,464,650
	
	patent.events.Z\ some events in the software patents story (BABYL mail file)
	
	pike.demo.Z\ Press release on picket of Rib Pike at MIT
	
	plaintiff.addresses.Z\
	
	protection.texi.Z\ The Software Protection Racket (texinfo)
	
	recruit.texinfo.Z\ How to Recruit Members for the League (texinfo)
	
	samuelson\ Articles by Pamela Samuelson
	
	signs.texinfo.Z\ Making Protest Signs (texinfo)
	
	speakers.texinfo.Z\ Becoming a League Speaker (texinfo)
	
	supreme-court.patents.Z\
	quote from The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co. vs. Supermarket Corp. (1950)
	
	techrev.patents.Z\ `The Software Patent Crisis' by Brian Kahn.
	
	lotus.texinfo.Z\ `Lotus disinformation'