On 3/20/06, Fastfission fastfission@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