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[Bernhard Walle]

* Johan Wevers <johanw at vulcan.xs4all.nl> [2004-09-20 00:31]:
> David Shaw wrote:
> 
> >IDEA is patented in Austria, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands,
> >Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Japan, and the USA.
> 
> That's strange, since you can't patent algorithms in The Netherlands
> unless they are part of a physical device, in which case the whole device
> is patented. I can only assume that noone even questioned that patent
> because noone here was ever sued for using IDEA.

same in Germany, the reason is following: IDEA is patended in
Switzerland as European patent, so it's valid in Germany and the
Netherlands, too.


Gruß,
Bernhard

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Es gibt viel zu tun - schnell weg!
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