Re: Oracle Innobase Purchase Impacts MySQL.

> the first MVCC patent I saw was from 1995,

Note again, the search criteria may simply not pick it up. If you search on MVCC, you get a bunch of OT stuff. I've seen others with slightly different search criteria. You also need to check every patent reference in all those shown, and that still isn't even close to a patent search - says right on it nothing before 1976. But I was merely pointing out something that Paul said would surprise him.

>Patents do not get granted in retrospect.

Once the courts get involved, anything can happen. http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20050925/news_mz1j25gould.html

There's a whole little industry built on things like retrospective patent suits.

>You can't today patent that idea you blurted out 2 years ago at the
>x-mas party when you were drunk.

Guess you've never been to a biosciences party :-)

jg

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