[Leaplist] Patent Infringement

[Scott Moe]

Writings are not patentable. Books are copyright
protected. That means you cannot sell copies without
permission. The ideas in a book cannot be copyrighted
or patented.

--- Homer Whittaker <whittake at sbaflorida.com> wrote:

> 
> I have a  question on the same general topic, but
> down a different avenue.
> 
> In many of the copy writed text-books and scientific
> topic books the 
> authors use formula in obtaining or formulating
> answers to the topic 
> they are writing about.
> 
> The exact formula may be built to get answers to
> their text book 
> problems, but the make up of the formula (X + X =
> 2X) may go back to 
> High School math.
> 
> Are such formulations valid patentable writings and
> if so/not are there 
> any HOWTO's or whatever on such?
> 
> Homer Whittaker
> 
> 
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