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Re: The GPL and Patents: ROFL
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Hyman Rosen |
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Re: The GPL and Patents: ROFL |
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Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:59:54 -0000 |
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On 8/18/2010 12:33 PM, Alexander Terekhov wrote:
Hyman Rosen wrote:
[...]
You are never going to be able to avoid the word "inextricably".
It just means that after you have extricated out expression elements
embodying patented idea, the rest of expression elements may be
copyrightable
No, that's false. You are claiming that in any implementation of
a patented process there must be expression inextricably bound to
the idea, and that such a program must then be divided into the part
so bound and the rest, and only the rest is subject to copyright.
That's false, and not supported by any case law. In Atari v. Nintendo
the court says: <http://digital-law-online.info/cases/24PQ2D1015.htm>
While title 35 protects any novel, nonobvious, and useful
process, title 17 can protect a multitude of expressions
that implement that process. If the patentable process is
embodied inextricably in the line-by-line instructions of
the computer program, however, then the process merges with
the expression and precludes copyright protection.
The court explicitly says that copyright can protect expressions that
implement patented processes, right there in the decision. I think we
are once again in a dispute of crank vs. court, and as always, court
wins.
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