Re: Boycott on Unisys still effective

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From: William Smargiassi
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 15:37

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aml@world.std.com (Andrew M. Langmead) wrote:
>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?

Prior art is prior art, whether patented, copyrighted, or public domain.
It does have to be published though. (From what I understand, which
is very little).

Bill Smargiassi          Main Line Management Services, Inc.
The opinions expressed in this message are not necessarily those
of my employer.

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