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Andrew Newton wrote:
| 3) On the issue of ignoring patent claims, the working group has at
| least rough consensus that the patent claims should not be ignored.
| Additionally, there is at least rough consensus that the participants of
| the working group cannot accurately describe the specific claims of the
| patent application. This stems from the fact that the patent application
| is not publicly available. Given this, it is the opinion of the
| co-chairs that MARID should not undertake work on alternate algorithms
| reasonably thought to be covered by the patent application. We do feel
| that future changes regarding the patent claim or its associated license
| could significantly change the consensus of the working group, and at
| such a time it would be appropriate to consider new work of this type.
I have to ask because it appears to me that you have left this somewhat
nebulous.
Does this mean that the PRA (with it's encumbrance) is being accepted as
a part of the MARID specification?
If so I do not know what in the world you could have been reading to
draw the conclusion that there was "rough concensus" to go forward with it!
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csm(_at_)moongroup(_dot_)com, head geek
http://moongroup.com
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