Re: Dickens Windowing Patent License Fee Request -- MIDRANGE-L

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At 9:21 AM -0800 12/2/99, Jim Langston wrote:

>Heck, maybe I'll go patent a logical statement called "IF".
>I wonder how much money I can make on that.

>Incidentally, how can you patent any code?  I thought that
>"look and feel" was thrown out the window a long time ago,
>ala Apple .vs. Microsoft.

Jim,

    A patent grants you the legal rights to an algorithm, not an 
expression of the algorithm (the program code).  So a patent would 
cover the use of the algorithm in any program language.

    Also, from what I remember, the "look and feel" lawsuits were 
based on copyrights, not patents.

    Regards,

    - Lou Forlini
      Software Engineer
      System Support Products, Inc.
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