On Saturday, 23 Jul 2005 10:28:05 -7.00, Sean Kellogg wrote:
> On Saturday 23 July 2005 02:40 am, Arnoud Engelfriet wrote:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > I have a few questions about software developement. One of them is
> > > whether a program written in e.g. Fortran by me or somebody else (w
Yep, here's the associated politics:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?m=20050311
and especially:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1775159,00.asp
It will play well to the cheap seats if Microsoft can cram a few
obvious stupidities of its own through the examination process (which,
as we have
And while we're naming and shaming IP law firms who should, in my
non-lawyer opinion, know better, let's add Lee & Hayes PLLC:
http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1='20030028685'.PGNR.&OS=DN/20030028685&RS=DN/2003
The prospect of this patent application resulting in a patent that can
be successfully litigated is zero. (IANAL, TINLA.)
http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220040230959%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20040230959&RS=D
* Arnoud Engelfriet:
>> It's possible that the patent refers to specific FORTRAN constructs,
>> such as storage layout of arrays, or syntactic elements of the
>> language. This may bite you in the other direction, too.
>
> Perhaps, but I've never seen a patent like that.
There are patents on ce
On Saturday 23 July 2005 02:40 am, Arnoud Engelfriet wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I have a few questions about software developement. One of them is
> > whether a program written in e.g. Fortran by me or somebody else (who
> > owns the copyright) is converted to C (not f2c). How is copyrig
Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Arnoud Engelfriet:
> > If the transformation from Fortran to C involves creative activity,
> > then the person who did the transformation may hold a copyright in
> > the C-version. Compare a translation from French to English of a
> > book. If it's just a literal translati
* Arnoud Engelfriet:
> If the transformation from Fortran to C involves creative activity,
> then the person who did the transformation may hold a copyright in
> the C-version. Compare a translation from French to English of a
> book. If it's just a literal translation, then the translator has
> n
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have a few questions about software developement. One of them is whether
> a program written in e.g. Fortran by me or somebody else (who owns the
> copyright) is converted to C (not f2c). How is copyright changed and what
> about patent issues (maybe not relevant).
If
Dear Debian legal,
I have a few questions about software developement. One of them is whether
a program written in e.g. Fortran by me or somebody else (who owns the
copyright) is converted to C (not f2c). How is copyright changed and what
about patent issues (maybe not relevant).
Further question
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