Re: Patent on a standard-byte order for intermachine communication

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From: Charlie Geyer
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 1991 03:12

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In article <1991Jul16.211832.6685@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> phil@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
(Phil Howard KA9WGN) writes:

> The problem is not patenting SOFTWARE, the problem is patenting OBVIOUS.

No.  The problem is with patenting ALGORITHMS.  This is illegal, but is
what the patent office is doing, de facto.

The United States can have algorithm patents or it can have computer science,
but it can't have both, not for long.

-- 
Charles Geyer                visiting Seattle
Department of Statistics     Department of Statistics
University of Chicago        University of Washington
geyer@galton.uchicago.edu    geyer@stat.washington.edu

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