tents for software notations, including #4,965,765 #5,249,290, #4,941,125 that effectively make anyone creating a web site in violation of patent law. Between November 7, 2000 and November 12, 2000, according to the patent register the following software patents were granted, presented here in tabular form for convenience.
Representative Software Patents Granted in One Week
Circuit and method for converting interrupt signals from level trigger mode to edge trigger mode
Circuit and method of converting a floating point number to a programmable fixed point number
Frequency translation circuit and method of translating points
Method and circuit for image rejection.
Computer network protection using cryptographic sealing software agents and objects.
Phase domain multiplexed communications logarithm
Method of combining and separating groups of multiple CDMA-encoded data signals and apparatus therefore
System and method for recovering from a power supply interruption
Continuously viewable, DC-field balanced, reflective, ferroelectric liquid crystal image generator
Method of entering and using handwriting to identify locations within an electronic book.
Calibrated high power radio frequency step attenuator.
Low noise buffer circuit for increasing digital signal transition slew rates.
Codes for testing an integrated circuit in a semiconductor chip wherein the temperature of the semiconductor chip is controlled
Method of making an integrated circuit package employing a transparent encapsulant
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