Re: ARC patent - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Travis P
Subject Re: ARC patent
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Msg-id 6E075FE7-6A2F-11D9-A91A-003065F9DAF8@castle.fastmail.fm
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In response to Re: ARC patent  ("Zeugswetter Andreas DAZ SD" <ZeugswetterA@spardat.at>)
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On Jan 19, 2005, at 4:54 AM, Zeugswetter Andreas DAZ SD wrote:

>  Another algorithm that was written by
> university folk (thus probably not patent prone) that looks promising 
> is:
> http://www.cs.wm.edu/hpcs/WWW/HTML/publications/papers/TR-02-6.pdf
> http://parapet.ee.princeton.edu/~sigm2002/papers/p31-jiang.pdf    (same, 
> but better typeset)

Do not assume that University algorithms are not patent protected.
They definitely may be and I know they sometimes are.

Princeton has an office dedicated to the issue:   http://www.princeton.edu/patents/

-Travis



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