Re: Boycott on Unisys still effective

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From: William Smargiassi
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 15:40

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jcburt@gatsibm.larc.nasa.gov (John Burton) wrote:
>Hmmm...can you imagine what would happen if someone had patented the
>AND, OR, NOT, and XOR algorithms ? Or perhaps patented "algorithms"
>for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division ? I can just
>see every school kid learning their multiplication tables having to
>pay a royalty to XYZ Corp...:-)

Couldn't happen. Mathematical formulas are not patentable. Tables, like
you find in statistics books and the like are. It's the arrangement that's
patented.

Disclaimer: Almost all of my info about patents/copyrights comes from
Communications of the ACM. I am not a lawyer.

Bill Smargiassi          Main Line Management Services, Inc.
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