[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia article violates patent?

[charles matthews]

"Fastfission" wrote


>I read over the article more closely -- it's not the sentence, per se,
> but the "fact" that was granted. It will be interesting to see what
> the courts rule -- all precedent that I know of attests to not being
> able to grant patents on "facts".

NB that US patent law is pretty much sui generis.  In Europe it is much more 
strongly held that patents are for 'processes'.

Anyway it behoves us to go on putting scientific facts on Wikipedia, 
regardless of 'ownership' claims, and worrying only about copyvio.

Charles