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January 15, 2005
Intellectual property, part X
Yesterday Matt noticed a US patent granted for the idea of a hash table. He'd been reading a Slashdot story on file sharers putting themselves in legal danger by abusing intellectual property rights.
We considered writing up a joint invention disclosure on a process that we've reduced to practice, which involves taking air into the lungs, where oxygen is traded for carbon dioxide and trace waste gases before the air is expelled. Then Matt worried there may be prior art on that one, so we got lazy and went back to work.
Posted by Mark at January 15, 2005 07:19 AM