[Phpmyadmin-devel] Re: patent on webaplications?

[Marc Delisle]

Sebastian Mendel a écrit :
> Michal Čihař wrote:
>> Hi again
>>
>> just looked at that patent :-).
>>
>> On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 09:52:47 +0100
>> Sebastian Mendel <lists at sebastianmendel.de> wrote:
>>
>>> my english is not as good to fully nderstand this patent:
>>>
>>> http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=7,000,180.WKU.&OS=PN/7,000,180&RS=PN/7,000,180 
>>>
>>>
>>> is this in someway problematic to us?
>>
>> Anyway only interesting thing there is:
>>
>> Filed:      February 9, 2001
>>
>> So it is no problem as it was two years after initial phpMyAdmin
>> release. In case we use something patented there, I thing you have good
>> chance to win if they decide to sue you.
> 
> ;-)
> 
> but now we cannot implement AJAX functionality ... :-( *g*
> 
> 
> btw. i don't take it too hard/heavy, i just want to mention
> 
> and personally i don't care much about software patents - but phpMyAdmin 
> is not only used in Europe ...
> 
> 

Sebastian,
you seem to think that a US patent covers all non-european countries :)

Marc