Re: patenting compiler technology

"Derek M. Jones" <derek@_NOSPAM_knosof.co.uk>
Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:40:50 +0000

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From: "Derek M. Jones" <derek@_NOSPAM_knosof.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:40:50 +0000
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References: 10-01-035
Keywords: legal
Posted-Date: 08 Jan 2010 10:14:53 EST

John,


> [I can think of a handful of patents, all about register allocation.
> As far as I can tell, nobody's ever made money from them, mostly
> useful as defense against future patent trolls. This came up 15
> years ago. See http://compilers.iecc.com/comparch/article/95-11-214
> -John]


Actually there are a surprising number of patents covering
various forms of code generation and analysis. Search
ep.espacenet.com/advancedSearch?locale=en_EP
using some obvious phrases.


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