From richard@pajant.co.uk Tue, 7 Dec 1999 08:33:17 -0000
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 08:33:17 -0000
From: Richard Morrey richard@pajant.co.uk
Subject: [Patents] Do software patents exisit in Europe?
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Reading information on the freepatents.org website I get the impression =
that
Sofware Patents have yet to be authorised in europe.

However UNISYS already claim to have european patent EP0800726 on their
LZW compression algorithm used in GIF.

Can anyone square this circle for me?


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