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In article <1991May19.014156.11349@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> phil@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Phil Howard KA9WGN) writes:
> Would it be legal to copy and publish the actual description of a patent,
> as filed in the patent office.

Yes. (The patent *is* the description, but this is beside the point.)

> Would it be legal for someone to publish a more elaborated description of
> what a particular invention actually means, including all of the patent
> filing, and re-expressing it first so that others can understand it?

Basically, yes, though you have to make sure that you're not inducing
infringement.

> What if the others happen to be machines?

No problem. If the others actually *use* the patented method, though,
then you're in trouble.

Sorry, folks, but this line of argument doesn't show that software or
algorithm patents are self-contradictory. Implementing a patented method
is okay; it's *using* the method that infringes the patent.

---Dan