overloaded function handles

John W. Eaton jwe at octave.org
Mon Jul 27 09:54:03 CDT 2009


On 27-Jul-2009, Robert T. Short wrote:

| FYI.  The obviousness concept applies only to the granting of patents.  
| The patents that Mathworks holds have been granted and it is now up to 
| potential infringers to show that either the patent is really invalid 
| because of obviousness or other reason or that the implementation is not 
| infringing.
| 
| Does someone have a copy of the patent in question?

Search for US patent 6993772 here:

  http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.htm

Other US patents held by the MathWorks are listed here:

  http://www.mathworks.com/company/aboutus/policies_statements/patents.html

jwe


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