Re: [HACKERS] [Fwd: AW: More UB-Tree patent information]

Patents are as much designed to confuse and dissuade someone from using
something as they are to patent something. Reading a patent is often
harder than killing the nearest chicken, strewing it's entrails allover
the yard, and then trying to make some sense of it.

Justin Clift wrote:

>Hannu Krosing wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 16:32, Justin Clift wrote:
>>
>>>Hi everyone,
>>>
>>>This is Prof. Bayer's response to the question "is it alright to use
>>>UB-Tree's in Open Source projects?".
>>>
>>Have you found out _what_ exaclty is patented ?
>>
>>Is it just his concrete implementation of "UB-Tree" or something
>>broader, like using one multi-dimensional index instead of multiple
>>one-dimensional ones ?
>>
>
>Is there any way of finding out instead of asking him directly? Maybe
>the patent places have online info?
>
>Professor Bayer isn't being overly informative.
>
>Anyone know?
>
>:-)
>
>Regards and best wishes,
>
>Justin Clift
>
>
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>>Hannu
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