On 3/20/06, Fastfission <fastfission(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I think this is legally speculative enough to not need
direct
attention. To use patents to restrict written speech is, to use a
phrase, patently weird (this sort of thing is practically *always* the
domain of copyright law). I doubt the courts will uphold this, and
anyway I doubt we need to worry about it specifically in any case, for
now.
In fact, the very definition of patented is that the description is
made public in return for a limited monopoly on use.
-Matt