Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] a new patent to worry about
From: Jan Depner (eviltwin69_AT_cableone.net)
Date: Wed Aug 25 2004 - 00:21:10 EEST
On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 11:09, Jennifer Dillon wrote:
> I have been experimenting with psychoacoustic mehods and enhancement in both
> hardware and software for the last 20 years and there already is quite a lot
> of information in the Public Domain. Do the new patent laws allow somebody to
> patent methods that are already in the public domain???
Technically no. This would be prior art. Knowingly filing a patent on
prior art would be illegal, however, Miro$oft seems to keep filing and
getting patents (and, hopefully, getting them shot down) on things that
had prior art. I guess they don't "knowingly" do it ;-)
Jan
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b28 : Wed Aug 25 2004 - 00:20:00 EEST