Re: Photo-CD

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From: Jon Peatfield
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1992 01:35

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Certainly the British government is of the opinion that GATT will not
affect the patentability of algorithms.  The patent office have stated
that currently patents may not be granted on algorithms, and they
claim that this will not change under the current draft of GATT if
adopted.  Of course they mey be wrong, or the draft may change.

I'm not clear what Alan Cox means by 'dissasembling' but certain types
of reverse engineering are not permitted, (and GATT gets another
couple I think.)  However writing code to a cleanroom derived spec of
a produce is legal (I think), ... at the moment.

Of course this could be lies and rumours...

-- Jon
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