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Article #40943Re: Jonathan (Apple patents)
From: Brian Martin
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 1989 09:22
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 1989 09:22
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In article <1833@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu> rampil@cca.ucsf.edu.UUCP (Ira Rampil) writes: >Yes Matilda, there are patents. I know, I saw one. >It was a patent issued to Bill Atkinson representing Apple. >The patent covered a new algorithm for handling arbitrary >rasterized regions. I was at a seminar on patents and copyrights last night, given by a patent attorney. According to him, algorithms can't be patented. Apparently, Merry-Lynch has a patent on a cash accounting "process" which includes software algorithms and flow diagrams as a part of the patent. He then went on to talk about using copyrights to protect the "expression" of an idea. And he said something about protecting microcode with something analogous to a copyright, designated by an "m" with a circle around it. -- Brian
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!agate!helios.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!humu!uhccux!bmartin From: bmartin@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Brian Martin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Jonathan (Apple patents) Message-ID: <3767@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> Date: 15 Apr 89 09:22:49 GMT References: <530@umiami.miami.edu> <7423@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <16381@cup.portal.com> <7483@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <6806@saturn.ucsc.edu> <1476@wasatch.UUCP> <1833@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu> Reply-To: bmartin@uhccux.UUCP (Brian Martin) Organization: University of Hawaii Lines: 15