Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On Mon, 8 Dec 2008 15:57:17 +0100, Thomas Berg wrote:
AFAICS, IANAL, etc but this (that they can block reading Your
own data) should require that they have a valid patent for the
data format (copy right is not sufficient, I think) and that one
must be too old (?).
It depends on who has the more expensive lawyers. I once looked
up (with some assistance) the notorious IBM 3270 TAB key patent.
It appears that IBM periodically repatents it, always claming
some new feature. These appear to me to be only paraphrases of
the original claim.
And, it seems to me that the essence of that IBM patent appears
in the operation of practically any GUI data entry form that uses
TAB to move from field to field. Why hasn't IMB taken action?
Ah, yes. The famous International Milk Bucket corporation that
IBM used to use in its internal case studies for training. :-)
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