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Article #1068Re: KDE v. Gnome
From: Andy Leighton
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 00:00
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 00:00
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On 11 Oct 1998 16:29:41 PDT, M O'Neill <darrow@oneillaw.com> wrote: >On 10 Oct 1998 18:45:37 +0000, Graham Murray ><graham@barnowl.demon.co.uk> wrote: >>Though if two (or more) people come up with the same idea >>independently of one another (and none knowing of the work/existence >>of the other(s)), does this not hint that the patent might be invalid >>because of the requirement that it be innovative and non-obvious (to a >>skilled practitioner in the field)? > >you could make that argument, but I don't think it would carry all >that much weight all by itself. Indeed if the case of the electric light bulb is anything to go by, it can get very messy. Although in that case both Swan and Edison settled out of court. Although if you asked me in that case, Swan had clearly demonstrated prior art (indeed his first patent for a carbon filament, partial vacuum lamp was in 1860). It always amuses to see the kind of quizes aimed at US school children, where Edison is claimed as the inventor of the lightbulb with no mention of Swan. -- Andy Leighton => andyl@azaal.dircon.co.uk "... January is your third most common month for madness" - _Sarah Canary_
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1103af,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gid1103af,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,942a0596db2b8174 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-Thread: f4bda,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4bda,public X-Google-Thread: 10d8ad,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d8ad,public X-Google-Thread: fcfb9,942a0596db2b8174 X-Google-Attributes: gidfcfb9,public From: andyl@azaal.dircon.co.uk (Andy Leighton) Subject: Re: KDE v. Gnome Date: 1998/10/12 Message-ID: <slrn7252nk.77p.andyl@azaal.dircon.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 400700228 References: <qj78u6.mf.ln@wog.interlog.com> <6uqc2e$qck$1@m1.cs.man.ac.uk> <907102850snz@vision25.demon.co.uk> <6v0uut$63l$1@aziraphale.demon.co.uk> <6vas4k$7tq$1@holly.csv.warwick.ac.uk> <slrn71hu0p.3pi.dblake@dylan.ucsf.edu> <907622335snz@vision25.demon.co.uk> <361B7A36.FE8B443A@mindspring.com> <6vgbvj$d2d$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> <hemlv6.241.ln@grapefruit.ndirect.co.uk> <m2yaqo4pgr.fsf@mailhost.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> <m2zpb49rxq.fsf@barnowl.demon.co.uk> <36213d82.8327069@news.concentric.net> X-Trace: 13 Oct 1998 19:04:42 -0100, 194.112.47.7 Organization: Andy Leighton Reply-To: andyl@azaal.dircon.co.uk Newsgroups: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss