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Patent Infringement Lawsuit Filed Against Red Hat and Novell - Just Like Ballmer Predicted (Groklaw)Patent Infringement Lawsuit Filed Against Red Hat and Novell - Just Like Ballmer Predicted (Groklaw)Posted Oct 13, 2007 15:46 UTC (Sat) by ordonnateur (guest, #6652)In reply to: Patent Infringement Lawsuit Filed Against Red Hat and Novell - Just Like Ballmer Predicted (Groklaw) by deck Parent article: Patent Infringement Lawsuit Filed Against Red Hat and Novell - Just Like Ballmer Predicted (Groklaw)
So this patent was filed in 1987 for something revealed i n a paper published 1986? Now I know we are talking US patents here which, as it is considered possible to patent software, are self evidently stupid; but, my understanding is that patents everywhere are for a limited time and this one appears about due to expire, and (ok US is probably different) but in UK law if you breathe a word of your 'invention' to anyone but a patent agent, let alone publish in a journal, your claim to a patent is invalid.
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Patent Infringement Lawsuit Filed Against Red Hat and Novell - Just Like Ballmer Predicted (Groklaw) Posted Oct 13, 2007 22:26 UTC (Sat) by pjhacnau (subscriber, #4223) [Link] IIRC in the US you have 12 months of grace period after publication to file for a patent. That was (one reason) why you had the RSA patent in the US and nowhere else in the world.
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