Linus Torvalds gets software patents wrong, says attorney (Out-Law)

Posted Dec 1, 2004 20:54 UTC (Wed) by emkey (guest, #144)
In reply to: Linus Torvalds gets software patents wrong, says attorney (Out-Law) by simlo
Parent article: Linus Torvalds gets software patents wrong, says attorney (Out-Law)

Doesn't that mean there was prior art though? Thus the patent should be void...

It would likely cost a lot of money to prove that though.

Patents are regional...

Posted Dec 1, 2004 23:23 UTC (Wed) by grantingram (guest, #18390) [Link]

Well I'm not an expert on engineering patents but I did go to a talk once....

I think it is perfectly possible to have a patent in the UK that doesn't cover the USA for example. The UK Patent office site seems to imply that this is the case.