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Article #40967Re: Jonathan (Apple patents)
From: Jonathan S. Shapiro
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 1989 00:38
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 1989 00:38
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In article <3767@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> bmartin@uhccux.UUCP (Brian Martin) writes: > >I was at a seminar on patents and copyrights last night, given by a patent >attorney. According to him, algorithms can't be patented. Technically correct but pragmatically misleading. Algorithms cannot be patented, but implementations of algorithms can, under a "method patent". By making the claims of the patent as general as possible, the algorithm can effectively be protected. Jon
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!decwrl!labrea!polya!shap From: shap@polya.Stanford.EDU (Jonathan S. Shapiro) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Jonathan (Apple patents) Message-ID: <8482@polya.Stanford.EDU> Date: 16 Apr 89 00:38:39 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> <3767@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> Sender: Jonathan S. Shapiro <shap@polya.Stanford.EDU> Reply-To: shap@polya.Stanford.EDU (Jonathan S. Shapiro) Organization: Stanford University Lines: 11