Re: Question from someone who's new to all this

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From: Steve Gardner
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 16:57

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In article <1993Jan3.170453.28445@zip.eecs.umich.edu> positron@quip.eecs.umich.edu (Jonathan Haas) writes:
>How can someone (PKP) patent a mathematical algorithm?
>Has this patent yet been challenged in court? It seems
>to me that it would be like trying to patent the Pythagorean
>Theorem.
	It is my understanding that they can only patent an algorithm
	under the US view of "intellectual property".  The US has been
	trying to force this view on the rest of its trading partners
	for some time.  Fortunately with some lack of success.


						smg

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