SW Patent mentioning KDE

[Waldo Bastian]

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On Friday 25 July 2003 15:22, Martin Konold wrote:
> Hi,
>
> http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/ne
>tahtml/search-bool.html&r=2&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=ptxt&s1=KDE&OS=KDE&RS=KDE
>
> I am not a patent expert. Is this going to be a problem in the future?

I am not a patent expert either :-)

The fact that KDE is mentioned does not mean that the patent applies to KDE. 
In fact I would argue that the fact that KDE gets mentioned acknowledges 
existing KDE versions as prior art.

- From reading the patent I do not get the impression that this patent affects 
current versions of KDE. I do not know whether it will affect KDE in the 
future, since I don't know what people will put in KDE in the future. I can 
only advice KDE developers not to implement any of the ideas expressed in 
this patent.

Cheers,
Waldo
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bastian at kde.org -=|[ SuSE, The Linux Desktop Experts ]|=- bastian at suse.com
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