Re: [Gimp-print-devel] Article: adaptive methods for dithering color images

[Robert L K. <rl...@al...>]

   Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 17:27:59 +0200
   From: Hrafnkell Eiriksson <he...@kv...>

   On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 05:16:11PM +0200, Jean-Jacques de Jong wrote:
   > I checked with the authors of the above article as inventors and didn't
   > find anything. There is however a black period: patents are published
   > only upon grant in the US and 18 months after their filing date in the
   > other countries. If the patent was filed only in the US, we might well
   > be in the black period.

   The article is published in july 1997. There have passed 34 months since
   it was published. The manuscript was received first in march 1996.
   The work in the article was not supported by any US grants.
   The authors live in Turkey and work there.
   I guess we are outside the black period?

My real point (which I should have made clear) was whether the paper
itself said anything about a patent.  Since it didn't, I'm comfortable
with it.  If someone does have a patent on it and sends us a cease &
desist, we can worry about it then.  Given that we're not selling
this, I suspect that the most anyone could do is ask us to stop using it.

   Actually there is an email address included, ak...@bo....
   Someone might just want to contact her if we find out that the
   work in the article gives us good results.

Well, that's the best suggestion yet :-)  Thank you for injecting some
rationality into this.

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