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4 Sep 2024 19:18:49 EDT (-0400)
  Re: More microsoft patents  
From: Warp
Date: 19 Nov 2009 16:37:21
Message: <4b05ba90@news.povray.org>
Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> It turns out that it wasn't putting it *in* the spreadsheet as such.

  If patents on prior art can be granted if the patent does some tiny
detail differently and originally, wouldn't that mean that, conversely,
you don't infringe the patent if you implement it with some tiny detail
being different from the patent description?

  The latter would make patents basically useless, but that means that
patents should not be granted on prior art simply because the patent has
a minor difference compared to all existing usage.

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                                                          - Warp


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