| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: In theory question |
| Date: | 2007-05-09 21:53:05 |
| Message-ID: | 20070509215305.GA4504@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> >On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 10:29:02AM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> >
> >>>This is exactly what I was asking about. So my theoretical idea has
> >>>already been implemented. Now if only *all* my ideas were done for me by
> >>>the time I came up with them :)
> >>Then you wouldn't be able to eventually patent them ;)
> >
> >I think you are overly optimistic ;-)
>
> You obviously haven't reviewed the US patent system. I just patented "A
> textual method for conveying expression without using any standardized
> language and only predetermined, but arbitrary symbols."
That's already patented by Microsoft.
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