Andrew Tridgell on Patent Defence

Posted by Tux De Luxe at 17:25 26/03/2010
Andrew Tridgell on Patent Defence: "A Samba developer is teaching programmers some techniques of reading patent claims. However programmers should not be too confident that they can stay out of harmsway by applying these techniques. Patents are numerous and broad and, unlike the patentability restrictions of Art 52 EPC, meant to be real."