[Info-vax] HTTP/2 stole my Applet

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 6/18/16 10:59 PM, David Froble wrote:
> lawrencedo99 at gmail.com wrote:
>> On Sunday, June 19, 2016 at 3:21:36 AM UTC+12, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>> On 2016-06-18, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
>>>
>>>> Can you own an idea?
>>> Yes. Copyights protect an implementation of an idea; a patent protects
>>> the idea itself.
>>
>> If someone came up with the same idea before you, that can invalidate
>> your patent (“prior art”).
>>
>> But if they came up with the same idea *after* you, they cannot claim
>> independent invention as a defence against infringement. Why is that?
>
> If they could, then what is the use of copyrights and patents.  Well,
> Ok, patents.  It's not independent if copywrited material is copied.

Could be if the  item copyrighted is intuitively obvious or the only
way something can be done.

bill