Re: patenting compiler technology

rcmetzger <rcmetzger@grandecom.net>
Wed, 6 Jan 2010 06:30:37 -0800 (PST)

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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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