CCL: software pattents in chemistry?

["Dr. Seth Olsen" <s.olsen1^^uq.edu.au>]

 Sent to CCL by: "Dr. Seth Olsen" [s.olsen1..uq.edu.au]
Patents happen, but what bothers me most is the excessively small
 print
 in that flow chart.  I put it into photoshop to zoom in and read it,
 but
 there's just no structure at all.  Hard to avoid infringing on a patent
 that you can't bloody read.
 Cheers,
 Seth
 Egon Willighagen e.willighagen%a%science.ru.nl wrote:
>  Sent to CCL by: Egon Willighagen [e.willighagen]_[science.ru.nl]
>  Hi all,
> Today I learned that software pattents have hit chemistry,
>  chemoinformatics in
>  this case:
>  http://v3.espacenet.com/textdoc?DB=EPODOC&IDX=WO2005001743&F=0
> I have no idea on the impact of this pattent, but was wondering if
>  others saw
>  more software pattents in chemistry, and wether software pattents in
>  chemistry affected work in our field.
>  
>  Anyone who has experience with software pattents in cheminformatics,
>  computational chemistry and the likes?
>  Egon
>  
>  
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 Dr Seth Olsen, PhD
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