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Re: Patent fun

From: Frank Knobbe <frank () knobbe us>
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 19:50:30 -0500

On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 14:16, Halvar Flake wrote:

A good example for this is structure reconstruction based on following a
pointer: Completely obvious, easily implemented -- people just hadn't done
it a lot before. One could've patented that by US rules, which is just
insane.


The famous "Method of swinging on a swing" patent (No. 6,368,227) comes
to mind. Still active. And I believe "Licenses are available from the
inventor upon request".

Cheers,
Frank

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