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The pertinent patents were filed in '96, so it's almost certainly not that?

• akiselev 7y ago
  Last I checked there were over a dozen patents from the 1990s to the 2010s that cover everything from manufacturing to software. IIRC the most important patents actually cover some algorithms on the display controller that won't be public domain until the mid to late 2020s.
  • namibj 7y ago
    Europe doesn't have software patents. I think non-US space would be enough of a market?
    • vanderZwan 7y ago
      IIRC it gets a bit messy once we start talking about hardware implementations of algorithms. I mean, is an electronics circuit that essentially implements an algorithm still a software patent?
      • namibj 7y ago
        Why does it need to be a hardware implementation?
        • vanderZwan 7y ago
          ... because we're talking about software patents?