Re: Tux2 - evil patents sighted

From: Thomas Davis (tadavis@lbl.gov)
Date: Tue Oct 03 2000 - 19:56:11 EST


Daniel Phillips wrote:
>
> "Jeff V. Merkey" wrote:
> > I am having Andrew McCullough review these patents to determine if there
> > are any infringement issues that may affect us. Whomever is concerned
> > her, if it would not be too much trouble, please forward what
> > documentation and patent no.'s to wandrew@timpanogas.org and copy me at
> > jmerkey@timpanogas.org and we will forward them to Malinkrodt &
> > Malinkrodt in Salt Lake City. I'll pay them to do a patent infringment
> > analysis, and post their analysis to interested/affected parties.
>
> http://164.195.100.11/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1='5819292'.WKU.&OS=PN/5819292&RS=PN/5819292
>
> http://164.195.100.11/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1='5963962'.WKU.&OS=PN/5963962&RS=PN/5963962
>
> http://164.195.100.11/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=/netahtml/search-adv.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&d=PALL&p=1&S1=6038570&OS=6038570&RS=6038570
>
> I suppose you will need a formal description of my algorithm.
>

You probably also want to add
http://www.patents.ibm.com/details?pn=US06049528__ for the bonding
driver.. Since it's already in the kernel, and prior work can be
demonstrated also.

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