Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on June 30, 2005 01:38 AM
On the other hand, somebody is now trying to do to mp3's what one company did to gif's a while back.
They're not trying -- it's already done. There has been a patent on MP3 encoding for years now, and there have been attempts to license said technology as early as <a href="http://www.chillingeffects.org/patent/notice.cgi?NoticeID=464" title="chillingeffects.org">1998</a chillingeffects.org>.
The legislation restricts itself to 'devices'
And as is the case more often than not, appending "... with a computer" to your patent application puts it in the "device" category.
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Re:Clear as mud
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on June 30, 2005 01:38 AMThey're not trying -- it's already done. There has been a patent on MP3 encoding for years now, and there have been attempts to license said technology as early as <a href="http://www.chillingeffects.org/patent/notice.cgi?NoticeID=464" title="chillingeffects.org">1998</a chillingeffects.org>.
And as is the case more often than not, appending "... with a computer" to your patent application puts it in the "device" category.
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