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patenting compiler technology zjane12@gmail.com (zeng jane) (2010-01-04) |
Re: patenting compiler technology derek@_NOSPAM_knosof.co.uk (Derek M. Jones) (2010-01-05) |
Re: patenting compiler technology rcmetzger@grandecom.net (rcmetzger) (2010-01-06) |
Re: patenting compiler technology gneuner2@comcast.net (George Neuner) (2010-01-11) |
Re: patenting compiler technology gah@ugcs.caltech.edu (glen herrmannsfeldt) (2010-01-14) |
Re: patenting compiler technology jeremy.wright@microfocus.com (Jeremy Wright) (2010-01-14) |
Re: patenting compiler technology paul.biggar@gmail.com (Paul Biggar) (2010-01-16) |
From: | rcmetzger <rcmetzger@grandecom.net> |
Newsgroups: | comp.compilers |
Date: | Wed, 6 Jan 2010 06:30:37 -0800 (PST) |
Organization: | Compilers Central |
References: | 10-01-035 |
Keywords: | legal |
Posted-Date: | 08 Jan 2010 10:22:08 EST |
On Jan 5, 12:19 am, zeng jane <zjan...@gmail.com> wrote:
http://patft.uspto.gov/
search for "optimizing compiler"
555 patents identified
not all are actually relevant to the topic
http://www.google.com/patents
search for "optimizing compiler"
382 patents identified
the first 200 are all relevant, and with a couple of exceptions,
all were granted between 1990 and 1999
[My, that's a lot. isn't it. It doesn't tell us how useful they are,
but since any patent granted in the US before 1993 has how run its
course and expired, it does tell us that they didn't destroy the
software industry. -John]
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