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An opportunity to End Software Patents: ESP briefs Court in its historic rehearing of the Bilski case

An opportunity to End Software Patents: ESP briefs Court in its historic rehearing of the Bilski case

Posted Apr 9, 2008 14:25 UTC (Wed) by BrucePerens (subscriber, #2510)
In reply to: An opportunity to End Software Patents: ESP briefs Court in its historic rehearing of the Bilski case by elanthis
Parent article: An opportunity to End Software Patents: ESP briefs Court in Bilski case rehearing

Read these software patents: 1 and 2. Electric Fence (Open Source of mine) is cited in these as prior art, and actually killed two of the planned claims in the older patent. But you can see that people are patenting technology in which Open Source is active.


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