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Lack of patent protection did impede progress

Lack of patent protection did impede progress

Posted Jun 21, 2012 1:57 UTC (Thu) by jjs (guest, #10315)
In reply to: Lack of patent protection did impede progress by jreiser
Parent article: EFF Launches New Patent Reform Project to Defend Innovation

?? It was described in IEEE Proceedings in 1977. do you have proof Liv invented it 8 years earlier?


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Lack of patent protection did impede progress

Posted Jun 21, 2012 2:56 UTC (Thu) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]

Maybe he did. But if he did and then decided to keep a secret because he couldn't get a patent for it all it proves is that it's possible to be really smart and really damn stupid at the same time.

Lack of patent protection did impede progress

Posted Jun 21, 2012 13:38 UTC (Thu) by jreiser (subscriber, #11027) [Link]

In 1969 I was a student of a professor who received a copy of the private preprint of Ziv's paper.

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