Re: [Patents] Hardware N Software

[Gregory Aharonian <srctran@world.std.com>]

Hartmut wrongly writes:
>You can be sued if you publish the software on the Internet.

If the software patent actually includes the sorce code, or anything
close, it is impossible to get sued for publishing the software on
the Internet, since it is already published on the Internet - i.e.,
the PTO's online patent database.

And if you publish the source code on the Internet from a site that is
in a country where there is no corresponding patent, you also definitely
cannot be sued (or threatended) while effectively making it available
to the world, that is , for software implementations of a software
patent where the patent is vague on the actual algorithms needed (and
in that case, it is questionable whether the patent is valid in the
US on enablement grounds).

Once again, an exaggerated threat.  Hallucnate something better.

Greg Aharonian