a friend of mine works for a software patent attorny

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Post #19,559 by cforde 11/27/01 7:08:03 PM Reply	a friend of mine works for a software patent attorny and he says: I am far from being a patent attorney, but the way I understand it, if software concepts C1, C2, and C3 are covered by the patent, then no, you haven't gotten past the patent. If C1 is a bubble sort, C2 is a hash table, and C3 is a binary tree (in other words, prior art), then you have got past the patent. Have fun, Carl Forde
Post #19,571 by wharris2 11/27/01 10:22:52 PM Reply	He's a friend? "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it." -- Donald Knuth
Post #19,595 by cforde 11/28/01 1:44:13 AM Reply	heh We have at least one friend here who works for Microsoft. Your point was? ;-) Have fun, Carl Forde

Question about software patents - (marlowe) - (7) - Nov. 26, 2001, 06:03:23 PM EST

Dunno. - (Another Scott) - (1) - Nov. 26, 2001, 06:15:09 PM EST

Disagreement (alas, not supported) - (wharris2) - Nov. 27, 2001, 09:00:47 AM EST

Depends - (JayMehaffey) - Nov. 26, 2001, 09:46:57 PM EST

Maybe - (tuberculosis) - Nov. 27, 2001, 12:43:39 PM EST

a friend of mine works for a software patent attorny - (cforde) - (2) - Nov. 27, 2001, 07:08:03 PM EST

He's a friend? -NT - (wharris2) - (1) - Nov. 27, 2001, 10:22:52 PM EST

heh - (cforde) - Nov. 28, 2001, 01:44:13 AM EST

That would be like Scott taking the Wal*Mart cruise.
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