Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 18:04:13 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: On "intelligent people" and "dangers to BSD" Message-ID: <4.2.2.20000324180332.041cf530@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.20.0003250230420.36561-100000@theory1.physics.i isc.ernet.in> References: <200003242018.NAA08726@usr09.primenet.com>
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At 02:17 PM 3/24/2000 , Rahul Siddharthan wrote: >Well I'm no lawyer (and know nothing of US law). > >But from what I can find from brief web searches, it seems that >before the change in patent law, the lifetime for "utility >patents" in the US was 17 years from date of issue, not 14 years. That's correct. IIRC, LZW hasn't expired yet but will soon. --Brett "Rules? This is the Internet." -- Dan Gillmor To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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