Re: Good News! (for the UK)

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From: Colin Walls
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1991 08:10

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mathew@mantis.co.uk (Industrial Poet) writes:

>"A High Court judge has found that program-to-program interfaces (or
> 'filters') are not covered under the laws of copyright after Daman, a
> publisher of specialist construction industry software, tried to prevent
> rival Total Information Processing Systems (Tips) from building in an
> interface to its competing product.

Another piece of good news reported in this week's Computer Weekly.
Apparently the Appeal Court has ruled that Norman Gales patent for an
embedded square root algorithm is invalid. They apparently pronounced that
computers contain instructions and that the result of embedding the 
algorithm is therefore not a machine. 
-- 
Colin Walls                | 
Tel. +44-61-200-3540       | I cannot and will not cut my conscience
Janet:  Colin@uk.ac.umist  |        to fit this years fashions.
DARPA:  Colin@umist.ac.uk  |

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