[Debian-uk] Symbian get UK patent on linking to a DLL - analysis wanted

[Ben Hutchings]

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On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 17:16 +0000, Wookey wrote:
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> We (FFII and killsoftwarepatents.com) would be interested to know
> which pieces of software will be infringing this - can anyone here
> give examples, or other analysis of this? Feel free to pass this mail
> on to people who might.
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Windows seems to have prior art:
<http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2006/07/19/671238.aspx>.

However, since this patent apparently refers specifically to linking by
ordinal, and that's rare on Win32 and unknown in ELF dynamic linking, I
can't think of anything infringing this.

Unfortunately I can only see the first page of the patent application
<http://gb.espacenet.com/search97cgi/s97_cgi.exe?action=3DView&VdkVgwKey=3D=
GB2407655A&ViewTemplate=3Dgb/en/textdoc.hts> so I can't see the full claims=
 or any disclosure of prior art.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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