1999.06.15 00:00 "patents", by Andreas R. Kleinert

In Europe, there's a discussion about (future introduction of) software patents going on:

      http://www.heise.de/tp/deutsch/inhalt/te/2911/1.html  (mostly german)
  and http://www.freepatents.org                            (english)

It's somehow related to image file formats (LZW, various JPEG derivates) and thus might be interesting for some of the readers here.

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ARK