Re: Boycott on Unisys still effective

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From: Andrew M. Langmead
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 14:48

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djohnson@seuss.ucsd.edu (Darin Johnson) writes:

>Then again, copyrights are inexpensive to make.  Patents are
>very expensive.

That brings up a question. Can a copyrighted work be presented as
prior art against a patent? If you copyright a program that contains
an algorithm, then later some tries to patent a process that depends
on software to perform the same algorithm, can the copyright be used
to overturn the patent?
--
Andrew Langmead

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Subject: Re: Boycott on Unisys still effective
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