On 20 February 2018 at 17:35, Emil Velikov <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > I stand corrected - according to wikipedia the usual 20 years, count from the application filling date. Seemingly that could be extended, but we have a couple of month to see that.
Thanks Chuck - seems like I had it wrong for years. -Emil _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
