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  • From: Peter Brink <peter.brink AT brinkdata.se>
  • To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] OT: Colour
  • Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 12:07:19 +0100

Rob Myers skrev:
In theory, since IKB was a uniquely vivid blue for the time, patenting the formula would have had the effect of restricting use of that exact blue to Klein.

No - it only gave Klein a monopoly on _that particular method_ of manufacturing the pigment, if someone else had come up with a different method, a different technical solution to the problem, they could have filed for a patent of their own. Klein never had a monopoly on that exact blue, he had a monopoly on a specific method of manufacturing a certain blue colour.


/Peter Brink




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