On 20 February 2018 at 17:20, Chuck Atkins <[email protected]> wrote: > FWIW, the patent should expire this June in which case it should no longer > be an issue. > I think you're confusing "application fill-in date" with "date patent issued". Former is in 1998, while latter in 2003. Exact dates and document numbers are below.
Alternatively the USPTO website has a slightly cleaner, IMHO, information. * 1998-06-16 US09098041 * 2003-11-18 US6650327B1 -Emil [1] http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,650,327.PN.&OS=PN/6,650,327&RS=PN/6,650,327 _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
