On 01/04/15 17:14, Lawrence espe wrote: > You really don't have to read all that stuff in order to protect your own > work.
But if you want to know what those protections are, you need to understand what the law says. >You should also pray that you're not sued for software patent infringement, and for most software programmers that's probably not much of an issue recently in many jurisdictions. :-) And the final limiting clause of a slew of patents granted by the USPTO I recently read was, paraphrased "The use of a different sequence of steps, including the omission of steps listed here, and steps not listed here, shall be deemed to be an infringement of this patent." Overarching, and hopefully not legally binding, but as the final, limiting clause of the patent, it looks like no work-arounds are possible. (Yes, I do know better than to read patents, but dam it, when somebody has obtained a patent that is nothing more than a series of steps I wrote, years before the patent was applied for, I'd like to know what it says, especially since they didn't give me the courtesy of telling that they were monetizing my non-invention.) jonathon
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