On Tuesday, 26 August 2014 at 21:38:11 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
On 8/26/2014 5:24 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 09:02:43PM +0000, MacAsm via
Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Tuesday, 26 August 2014 at 19:37:29 UTC, Max Klyga wrote:
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2014/0196008.html -
IMMUTABLE
OBJECT TYPES
I really hope patent office will reject these applications.
How bad will this be to D?
D has had immutable for years! Surely that counts as prior
art?? Does
the patent office accept prior art submissions?
I doubt very much the USPTO gives a rat's ass about prior art.
Their strategy has been to sell patents to as many applicants
as they can and let the courts sort them all out. (The gov like
to pretend that that their court system, and therefore justice
itself, doesn't cost $$$$$.)
As for the specific patents, meh, I've long been convinced that
it's physically impossible to write any useful software without
inadvertently "infringing" on several US patents. I doubt very
much that even a "Hello World" wouldn't involve anything that
some patent could make a claim over.
This is what happens when corporations are permitted free reign.
You guys should totally move to New Zealand. Seriously you would
fit right in.
Best part? No software patents.
