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Submit Prior Art to U.S. Patent office Appilications http://patents.stackexchange.com/ On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 7:19 AM, Kenneth Wilkerson <redb...@austin.rr.com> wrote: > I'm with you on patents. I came across an IBM patent yesterday that was > dated 2009 describing a lock-free storage manager using cell pools to > manage variable length storage. I invented my first one 30 years ago using > CAS. It was writing a more sophisticated version 10 years ago that led to my > research on PLO. I'm now on my fourth version of this storage manager, this > one I wrote for me, and it's much more sophisticated than the patented > algorithm with numerous more capabilities. > > Like music, every piece of software is based on what we've seen before. So > my real question with software patents is how do you prove it's original? > It's the chicken and the egg. Which came first? > > Kenneth > -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
