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Softwarové patenty

To je naprosto zasadni omyl. Ten webshop neni patentovan v USA, ale v Evrope u EPO! Jedine, co ve vymahani techto patentovych stupidit zatim brani, je fakt, ze tyto patenty byly udeleny v rozporu s platnou legislativou a tudiz nejsou soudne vymahatelne!

Neni nejakym zpusobem napadnutelne, ze byly tyto patenty prijaty v podstate nepravem?

Obavam se, ze tady je zasadni problem s aktivni legitimaci k zalobe. Jelikoz tyto patenty nejsou pravne vymahatelne, tak nikomu nevznika zadna ujma, neni tedy co zalovat. Leda ze byste podal na uredniky, kteri ty patenty priklepli, nejake trestni oznameni napr. v Nemecku. Treba pro zneuziti pravomoci verejneho cinitele. Podotykam, ze neznam nemecky trestni zakon.

A kdo to bude financovat?

Ano, to samozrejme je. Ale po udeleni uz s nimi po uplynuti nejake kratke doby nema EPO co do cineni. To byste je musel napadat kazdy zvlast a v kazde zemi zvlast.

hele, az te nekdo zazaluje, tak si to budes muset za vlastni penize overit, ze ten patent je skutecne protipravni, pote budes muset doufat, ze soud pochopi tvoji argumentaci a da ti za pravdu a teprve pote (s patricnou fakturacni lhutou, pripadne nekolika rocnym opozdenim ... kdyz budes davno po bankrotu) ti zalobce proplati soudni naklady a pripadne dostanes nejakej malej bonus.

Neni jednodussi pouzit tu samou (FUD + mlzeni) techniku ted na nase zakonodarce a pohrozit jim ze tyhle patenty budou vymahatelne a at tedy SW patenty smetou ze stolu? Myslim ze to usetri spoustu casu, nervu a penez vsem malym a strednim vyvojarum.

Nemyslim ze velci vyvojari jsou na tom tak spatne, ze by je bylo potreba dal zvyhodnovat na ukor malych a strednich SW vyvojaru. IMHO spis naopak.

Krome toho zakon, ktery zakazuje uplatneni takoveho patentu muze projit novelizaci. Patent zustane... dusledky si domysli sam.

Ty tu tvrdis, ze to, ze tyto patenty budou pravne vymahatelne je FUD + mlzeni, lec skutecnost je jina. Diky tomu, ze to, co se v EU ted projednava neni novinka, ale DODATEK k zakonu, ktery v dobe, kdy byly tyto patenty podany, jiz platil, tyto patenty se pravne vymahatelnymi stanou...
To neni FUD, ale realita...
Cely figl prave spocita v tom, ze se nejedna o novou vec, ale o DODATEK k jiz platne veci...

Microsoft has submitted a patent application for the IsNot operator.

I strongly suspect that there is prior art.

Following are the complete abstract and the first few claims.

John
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IS NOT OPERATOR

Abstract

A system, method and computer-readable medium support the use of a
single operator that allows a comparison of two variables to determine
if the two variables point to the same location in memory.

What is claimed:

1. A system for determining if two operands point to different locations
in memory, the system comprising: a compiler for receiving source code
and generating executable code from the source code, the source code
comprising an expression comprising an operator associated with a first
operand and a second operand, the expression evaluating to true when the
first operand and the second operand point to different memory locations.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the compiler is a BASIC-derived
programming language compiler.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the operator is IsNot.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the compiler comprises a scanner, a
parser, an analyzer and an executable-generator.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the source code comprises at least one
statement, and the statement comprises a keyword representing the
operator, the keyword recognized by the scanner.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the parser receives the scanned source
code from the scanner and determines if the operator is preceded by and
followed by an operand....

Source:

http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220040230959%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20040230959&RS=DN/20040230959

Uhh... :-(((