[opensuse] OT: 192262 US Software Patents
This has got me thinking about what patent protection REALLY means. In order to understand it better I queried the uUnited States Patent and Trademark Office for all patents that could be related to computer software. This is what the database came up with: http://makeashorterlink.com/?Q57D6393E To be fair, some of these may be about hardware. I queried for patents in any of the following classes: 700 - Data processing: generic control systems or specific applications 702 - Data processing: measuring, calibrating, or testing 703 - Data processing: structural design, modeling, simulation, and emulation 704 - Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression 705 - Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or cost/price determination 706 - Data processing: artificial intelligence 707 - Data processing: database and file management or data structures 708 - Electrical computers: arithmetic processing and calculating 709 - Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomputer data transferring 710 - Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: input/output 711 - Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory 712 - Electrical computers and digital processing systems: processing architectures and instruction processing (e.g., processors) 713 - Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support 714 - Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery 715 - Data processing: presentation processing of document, operator interface processing, and screen saver display processing 717 - Data processing: software development, installation, and management 718 - Electrical computers and digital processing systems: virtual machine task or process management or task management/control 719 - Electrical computers and digital processing systems: interprogram communication or interprocess communication (ipc) 726 - Information security A complete list of patent classes may be found here: http://www.uspto.gov/go/classification/selectnumwithtitle.htm If you want to search for patents granted in a single class or set of classes, you can go here: http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/search-adv.htm and enter a big fat query of the form: "ccl/700/$ or ccl/702/$ ..." Naturally before you release any code you'll want to have a quick look through the relevant patents to make sure you're not infringing. Saill -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sunday 19 November 2006 22:43, Saill White wrote:
Naturally before you release any code you'll want to have a quick look through the relevant patents to make sure you're not infringing.
Taking number of patents 192262 that is larger than number of words in English and few more languages, it is sure that there is nothing that is not protected. We have 2 companies that will not assert pattent rights, now we have to convince another ? thousands to do the same. -- Regards, Rajko M. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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