Re: Article: IBM wants to "clean up the license" of Linux

Gregory Maxwell (linker@z.ml.org)
Wed, 23 Dec 1998 02:14:10 -0500 (EST)

It was 17 years until the begining of this year (I could be wrong, it
might have been before then. I can't rember 6months ago much less almost
a year).

We're luckey they didn't extend currently living patents.

On 22 Dec 1998, Jim Pick wrote:

> But the USPTO says:
>
> "The term of the patent shall be 20 years from the date on which the
> application for the patent was filed in the United States"
>
> (from http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/doc/general/whatispa.htm )
>
> 20 years?
>
> I constantly hear people saying it is 17 years from the time the
> patent is issued...
>
> The RSA patent was filed on Dec. 14, 1977 - but issued on Sept. 20, 1983:

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