<div dir="ltr">That may be, and I somewhat came to this conclusion after hitting the send button.<div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 9:09 PM, Shane Trent <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shanedtrent@gmail.com" target="_blank">shanedtrent@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" class="m_-4148901661099513299gmail_msg">Carl,<div class="m_-4148901661099513299gmail_msg"><br class="m_-4148901661099513299gmail_msg"></div><div class="m_-4148901661099513299gmail_msg">I believe the software patent ruling has zero impact on NDAs. Confidential is the opposite of disclosing information publicly to get patent protection. If you use code that is written and owned by someone else you can still be sued. Code protected by NDA is still covered by NDA. But if you have published code or an algorithm in a patent application it puts you in an awkward position because by definition it has been publicly disclosed once the application published. This is one of the reasons that Google selects "Do Not Publish" when filing patent applications.</div></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div dir="ltr" class="m_-4148901661099513299gmail_msg"><div class="m_-4148901661099513299gmail_msg"><br class="m_-4148901661099513299gmail_msg"></div><div class="m_-4148901661099513299gmail_msg">Shane</div></div></font></span><div><div class="h5"><br class="m_-4148901661099513299gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_quote m_-4148901661099513299gmail_msg"><div dir="ltr" class="m_-4148901661099513299gmail_msg">On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 6:41 PM Carl Nobile via TriEmbed <<a href="mailto:triembed@triembed.org" class="m_-4148901661099513299gmail_msg" target="_blank">triembed@triembed.org</a>> wrote:<br class="m_-4148901661099513299gmail_msg"></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote m_-4148901661099513299gmail_msg" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class="m_-4148901661099513299gmail_msg">This can really throw a wrench into all NDAs that any software engineer has ever signed in their life. This would mean that using code, originally from a proprietary project, would not violate the purpose and concept behind the project, making it perfectly legal to use this code elsewhere.<div class="m_-4148901661099513299gmail_msg"><br class="m_-4148901661099513299gmail_msg"></div><div class="m_-4148901661099513299gmail_msg">I have always worried about this. If I use code, from a propriety project, some piece of code that had nothing to do with the concept behind the project, in another project it would be completely legal.</div><div class="m_-4148901661099513299gmail_msg"><br class="m_-4148901661099513299gmail_msg"></div><div class="m_-4148901661099513299gmail_msg">So I guess the only thing that can be patented is the idea and flows not the actual code.</div><div class="m_-4148901661099513299gmail_msg"><br class="m_-4148901661099513299gmail_msg"></div><div class="m_-4148901661099513299gmail_msg">Good deal considering I understood the document correctly.</div><div class="m_-4148901661099513299gmail_msg"><br class="m_-4148901661099513299gmail_msg"></div><div class="m_-4148901661099513299gmail_msg">~Carl</div><div class="m_-4148901661099513299gmail_msg"><br class="m_-4148901661099513299gmail_msg"></div></div><div class="gmail_extra m_-4148901661099513299gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_extra m_-4148901661099513299gmail_msg"><br class="m_-4148901661099513299gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_quote m_-4148901661099513299gmail_msg">On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 6:19 PM, Pete Soper via TriEmbed <span dir="ltr" class="m_-4148901661099513299gmail_msg"><<a href="mailto:triembed@triembed.org" class="m_-4148901661099513299gmail_msg" target="_blank">triembed@triembed.org</a>></span> wrote:<br class="m_-4148901661099513299gmail_msg"><blockquote class="gmail_quote m_-4148901661099513299gmail_msg" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161005/15280135720/prominent-pro-patent-judge-issues-opinion-declaring-all-software-patents-bad.shtml" rel="noreferrer" class="m_-4148901661099513299gmail_msg" target="_blank">https://www.techdirt.com/<wbr>articles/20161005/15280135720/<wbr>prominent-pro-patent-judge-<wbr>issues-opinion-declaring-all-<wbr>software-patents-bad.shtml</a><br class="m_-4148901661099513299gmail_msg">
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