From: Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@firmix.at>
To: Linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: IBM Patents
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 15:45:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1105973138.28592.26.camel@tara.firmix.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0501170842540.21983@chaos.analogic.com>
On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 08:44 -0500, linux-os wrote:
> Tue Jan 11 07:07:40 EST 2005
>
> IBM has announced that it will provide free access to about
No, they only promise now to not sue anyone given the following
criteria. No one knows what happens in 5 years.
> 500 of its existing software patents to users and groups
They have ca. 40000 AFAIK. So 500 is 1,25 %.
And IBM is actually lobbying for patents so this is only a marketing
thing.
> working on open source software.
>
> http://www.ibm.com/news/us/
>
> Many of these patents relate to interoperability, communications,
> file-export protocols, and dynamic linking.
And almost all of them are pure software-patents and probably prior art.
Thus they are - at least in Europe - not relevant and actually illegal
if you believe in the current European patent law as defined by the
European Patent Convention (see §52(2) for details).
Bernd
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-17 14:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-17 13:44 linux-os
2005-01-17 14:45 ` Bernd Petrovitsch [this message]
2005-01-18 8:37 ` Bernhard Schauer
2005-01-18 9:25 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2005-01-18 11:04 ` James Bruce
2005-01-18 11:24 ` Chris Lingard
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