> Valent Turkovic wrote: >> Quote from http://www.pli.edu/patentcenter/blog.asp?view=plink&id=368 : >> >> Here are the highlights: >> >> * The Federal Circuit rejected the that the "useful, concrete and >> tangible >> result" inquiry as being inadequate. >> >> * Patentability under 101 does not depend on process steps, but rather >> requires a tangible machine or transformation into a different state. >> >> * *Software* *is* *once* *again* *unpatentable* *in* *the* *United* >> *States* >> >> * In order to protect what was formerly known as patentable software >> we >> will have to go back to claiming a machine that provides certain >> functionality. >> >> * Software patents that have been issued under the previous >> understanding >> of the law are almost certainly now worthless. > > Also from http://ben.klemens.org/blog/arch/00000009.htm: >> Despite claiming that all that matters is the >> machine-or-transformation test, the ruling also bears in mind many >> other necessary conditions for patentability, such as the rule that a >> patent may not ?wholly pre-empt? a law of nature or principle or >> mathematical formula. Also, if you wholly pre-empt a mathematical >> algorithm within some narrow field of endeavor, the court rules that >> this is still a pre-emption. I'll have a little more on this below. > > Note "a patent may not 'wholly pre-empt' ... a mathematical formula". > > ...which means all those codecs from livna/rpmfusion just became 100% > legal, no royalty required*. > > (* assuming the copyright license is not an issue, of course) I assume an "official" statement on this from Fedora/RedHat legal folk will be forthcoming. Unless it already has, and I missed it, which is entirely possible. > -- > Matthew > Please do not quote my e-mail address unobfuscated in message bodies. > -- > Igor Peshansky: Don't hippos love water even more than dogs? > Dave Korn: Don't ask me. I didn't even know that hippos loved dogs. > > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list > -- novus ordo absurdum -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
