[Patents] Fwd: Patent problem

[Luuk.van.Dijk@xs4all.nl (Luuk van Dijk)]

On Wed, 28 Mar 2001 12:44:01 Alessandro Rubini wrote:
> 
> I received this, I though it's of interest here.
> 
> > From: Juhana Sadeharju <kouhia@nic.funet.fi>
> > Subject: Patent problem
> > Date:       Mon, 26 Mar 2001 14:23:24 +0300
> > 
> > Hello. We have a problem.

<SNIP>

> > Would you have a possibility to find people who are interested in
> > to read the prior art papers and the patents, and give comments?
> > The story is at "http://www.funet.fi/~kouhia/convolver.html";.

On that page is a link to the alleged infringers page on the 
program in question (http://www.ludd.luth.se/~torger/brutefir.html)
and it says:


<QUOTE>
2001-03-17
With the help of people that know much more about patents than I do, I have 
realised that my software has never infringed Lake's patent. Their patent is 
about hybrid filtering and nonuniform partitioning of the impulse response, 
and not about the trivial algorithm found in BruteFIR. And if you ask, yes, 
all this is embarrassing. However, as before, in respect to Lake I will not 
republish the source code until they have reported to me that they have 
understood the situation.
</QUOTE>

So I'm not sure what the status of the cry for help is now.

Luuk