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Patents with source code

Posted Sep 4, 2012 9:54 UTC (Tue) by Wol (guest, #4433)
In reply to: Patents with source code by SecretEuroPatentAgentMan
Parent article: Mobile patent wars: Google goes on the attack

Actually, from my understanding reading Groklaw, if the inventor has said "Bwahahaha there are no ways round my patent" he has just handed you a sure-fire kill switch!

Not that the courts will actually throw the switch, but if there's only one way to do it, then that way is not patent-eligible subject matter!

Cheers,
Wol


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Patents with source code

Posted Sep 7, 2012 20:15 UTC (Fri) by SecretEuroPatentAgentMan (guest, #66656) [Link]

> Actually, from my understanding reading Groklaw, if the inventor has said "Bwahahaha there are no ways round my patent" he has just handed you a sure-fire kill switch!

Can you provide a reference for this?

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