[Haskell-cafe] Patents on Maybe and Tuple

[Alfred Matthews]

@Saurabh thanks. Well done.

Are the patents each not effectively processor-specific?

At the very least, the LLVM and subsidiary IRs are of interest.

On Wed, Jan 30, 2019, 10:17 PM Flavio Villanustre <fvillanustre at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I'm no patent attorney either, but there is a temporal component when it
> comes to invalidating patents due to prior art, and Haskell is demonstrably
> "very prior" to these claims, even though it's not mentioned there.
>
> Only something that appeared after the patent was filed initially would
> potentially constitute infringement, as long as the claims made in the
> patent weren't made public by the inventors themselves prior to the filing,
> of course.
>
> I guess, Haskell is safe and we live to see another day... :)
>
> Flavio
>
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2019, 21:51 Saurabh Nanda <saurabhnanda at gmail.com wrote:
>
>> Also, the wording seems to be sufficiently broad to cause some concern to
>>> Haskell & Rust compilers, but the compilation of two programs in two
>>> unrelated languages will probably prevent an infringement.
>>>
>>
>> Actually, the teams working on languages like Eta, Kotlin, and Scala
>> should be really worried about these series of patents and should get
>> infringement analysis done by an experienced IP lawyer, and/or press for
>> invalidation of these patents.
>>
>> -- Saurabh.
>>
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