17 Sep
2012
17 Sep
'12
10:44 a.m.
>> Does prior art have to be patented? I'm
certainly no lawyer, but
On Mon, 17 Sep 2012, Chuck Guzis wrote:
I don't know--I do remember one of the earliest
software patents
granted was for the use of CRC for checking file integrity. I kid
you not.
IANAL, thank heavens.
I remember Lee? looking for demonstrable art to try to block some IBM
software patents, such as use of two 16 bit registers to hold the
coordinates of upper-left and lower-right points to define a rectangle in
INT10h !