From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 References: <43666446-4389-480B-B478-99A967F7A57A@bitblocks.com> <20130315174654.GA1764@intma.in> From: Matthew Veety Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20130315174654.GA1764@intma.in> Message-Id: Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 15:20:56 -0400 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) Subject: Re: [9fans] The PATENTED IBM MULTI-PIPE : the evolution of unix pipes Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2adf07a4-ead8-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Mar 15, 2013, at 13:46, Kurt H Maier wrote: > On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 10:29:09AM -0700, Bakul Shah wrote: >> >> If it is same or close enough, what matters is if your code can be >> shown as prior art. > > I don't see how. The US is first-to-file land, now. > > khm > I only thought that was starting in April?